Xiangzi used to be an honest laborer who loved life. The description of his appearance at the beginning of the novel and the description of his rickshaw pulling are all radiant, which has simply become a hymn of youth, health and labor. However, Xiangzi, who will be a ghost in this hell, has not always been a good person in this world. With the disillusionment of life wishes, he became a completely different person. "He eats, he drinks, he whores, he gambles, he is lazy, he is cunning", he scours, he fights, he takes advantage and sells his life for a few dollars. Pulling a cart used to be his only hope, but later he hated pulling a cart and was tired. Even his appearance became dirty. By the end of the novel, he had become a walking corpse without a job. Among the changes of Xiangzi, the most important thing is the change of life attitude. He has never been a conscious laborer, let alone a hero, but his desire to buy a car as an independent laborer, after all, expressed his resistance to fate and efforts to change his humble situation to a certain extent. He does not bow to fate, he is stronger, and he pursues his own ideals. In the end, he was completely satisfied with his fate. "Living is everything, don't think about anything." He gave in to life and endured all the insults and injuries without resentment.

& lt Midnight: Wu is a typical representative of industrial capitalists in China's semi-feudal and semi-colonial society in the early 1930s. He fully embodies the duality of China's national bourgeoisie, that is, he shows some resistance and progress in the face of oppression by imperialism and bureaucratic comprador, and shows a mercenary and conservative and reactionary side when oppressing workers, peasants and the weak in the same trade. Wu's ambition to revitalize the national industry led to bankruptcy and failure. Inadvertently, it reflects the historical tragedy that China's weak national bourgeoisie tried to get rid of the oppression of imperialism and bureaucratic comprador, dreamed of taking the road of independent development of capitalism, and finally got nothing. The typical significance of Wu's image lies in his distinct personality contradiction: smart, capable, brave and flexible, with modern management knowledge in Europe and America, and ambitious to revitalize China's national industry. But all this is based on individuals bullying the bourgeoisie for the benefit. Interests. Therefore, his character is quite blind, willful, arrogant, helpless and weak when encountering setbacks. In family life, he is also full of contradictions and hypocrisy: on the one hand, he plays with social parties, rapes maids and is inseparable from his wife.