1. The main content of "Gao Laotou" is: It tells the story that the hero Gao Laotou was a flour merchant who started during the French Revolution and lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to make them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them 800 thousand francs as his dowry when he got married. But his two daughters lead a dissolute life and spend money like water, so his love is easily defeated by the principle of money first.

Second, the important story of Gao Laotou:

1, Fugai apartment

Fugai apartment is a civilian apartment in Paris. The landlord, Mrs. Vogue, is over 500 years old and still wants to seduce rich tenants. Guests include Mrs. Ku tours, Victoria, a girl mercilessly abandoned by her father and brother, Boalai, a retired civil servant, Fu Tuoleng, an old maid, Miss Michelangelo, an old noodle merchant in her seventies, Euena La Sting, a poor college student, and Sylvie, a fat cook.

2. Two visits

Rasty visited Mrs Lester, who didn't know the rules of Paris and was looked down upon everywhere. He had a conflict with his wife's lover, Mr. Maxim, and angered his eldest daughter when talking about his neighbors. After leaving in the rain, he went to Mrs. Busayon's house. But this cousin was fascinated by the tryst with Marquis Alku da Pando, where he listened to Mrs. Langer talk about the old and lofty daughter and various phenomena of Parisian society. After returning to my apartment, I wrote to my family asking for financial assistance.

3. Love at first sight

His mother, aunt and sister sent him 1200 francs, which is their annual income. Fu Tuoling took the opportunity to tell him about his understanding of society, and suggested that he seduce Victoria, an unfortunate girl abandoned by her family, and promised to help her become the only legal heir to a huge fortune. It is difficult to get close to the old man who loves his daughter, and he likes the college student beside him. But Fenner also made eyes at him because of his aristocratic status. She was deprived of her financial rights by her banker husband.

4. Ghosts are fooled

College students are loved by them, and Lao Gaoman privately gave him a love nest worth 12000 francs. Futuoleng was also tempted by him, and arranged a duel to kill Victoria's brother and reach a conspiracy. Miss Michelangelo accepted 3,000 francs as the eyes and ears of the police, and helped to capture Votoring. It turned out that his real name was Colam, a convict who escaped from prison. Facing the tenants who are leaving one by one, the landlord keeps sighing.

5. Two daughters

Gao Laotou's two daughters were subdued by her husbands Resto and Newchingen, respectively, and lost the right to control the huge dowry. Lao Gaoman sold all his property and subsidized the children. The two sisters always turn against each other. Viscount Busion, the cousin of college students, was finally abandoned. She lived in seclusion in Normandy after hosting a luxurious ball.

6. Father's death

Lao Gaoman tried his best to help his daughter pay her debts and was in a hurry. Before I died, I longed for my children to see him, but my eldest daughter lost her freedom and was not released. My little daughter got sick and noisy after attending the dance, and didn't make up for her nap. Finally, college students spent all their savings in mourning for the elderly, and also completed their studies in this heartless dye vat in Paris, and secretly made up their minds.

Extended data:

The theme of Gao Laotou's works

Gao laotou focuses on exposing and criticizing the naked money relationship between people in the capitalist world. The novel is set in Paris from the end of 18 19 to the beginning of 1820.

Mainly write two parallel and overlapping stories: the retired flour merchant Gao Leo was left out by his two daughters and died tragically in the attic of Fugai apartment; Under the influence of Parisian society, the young Rasty's changed constantly, but he still maintained justice and morality. At the same time, it is also interspersed with the story of Mrs. Bao cylon and Vottolen.

Through shabby apartments and luxurious aristocratic salons, the writer painted a series of extremely ugly pictures of the materialistic society in Paris, exposed the moral decay of the bourgeoisie under the control of money forces and the ruthlessness between people, revealed the inevitable demise of the aristocratic class under the attack of the bourgeoisie, and truly reflected the characteristics of the Bourbon restoration period.

References:

Gaolaotou-Baidu Encyclopedia