Cause of death: She was sold by her father to an officer. After the officer was transferred, she returned to her family. Her father was a heavy drinker, and there was no source of income at home, so she was forced to go into prostitution. Finally, her father sold her to a kiln worker. Before Xiangzi could pick her up, she was treated inhumanely and hanged herself.
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Joy's life is regarded as a true portrayal of the life fate of girls at the bottom of the old society in China. They are not wrong, because their fate was decided by that dark and desperate era from the beginning.
Camel Xiangzi reveals the tragic fate of the bottom people in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China society through the life story of the rickshaw driver Xiangzi who finally fell down. Xiangzi's experience proved that the working people in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era could not change their situation through their own hard work and personal struggle.