Use this theme to:

(1) Kimchi tastes sweet and sour, but it is more sour, which describes the present situation of the heroine in this article.

(2) Kimchi is an appetizer. For the hero, the heroine is just something to adjust his life. I'm not going to spend my life with him.

(3) Kimchi will go bad if it is kept for a long time. It describes that after the hero and heroine get along for six years, the heroine's life and other aspects become no longer beautiful and gradually worse.

The hero and heroine's personality:

(1) Male host: He is infatuated and still loves the female host, but from a series of behaviors such as showing off his wealth and interrupting the female host's speech after meeting, he is a vain and selfish person.

(2) The hostess: sensitive, strong and self-respecting, who loves music but sells her beloved piano due to financial difficulties.

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The central image of the story is the very important "dill pickle", which only appears twice. This image can be understood as that the maintenance of love requires sincere efforts from both sides. Although Vera and "he" are attracted to each other, the woman is reserved and tempted, and the man is selfish and grandiose, which doomed the failure of this relationship from the beginning. When a pair of former lovers meet again, the original sweet love has become as sour as dill pickles. "Dill pickles" can also symbolize Vera herself. At the beginning of the 20th century, women had not yet achieved economic and political independence, and still succumbed to men. Vera's life with rich inner feelings is destined to be full of hardships, and these hardships have created Vera's character of being soft outside and hard inside, just like dill pickles, which is more interesting after life's tempering. "Dill pickles" can also symbolize Vera's longing for a better life. Dill kimchi is not expensive, and the coachman who has never met is willing to share it generously, which shows the mutual concern between people. Vera's boyfriend, on the other hand, is eating oranges and drinking coffee alone, telling the story of going to a foreign country alone. At the end, Vera suddenly leaves, but he sits there in surprise, which reflects the common themes in modernist works-indifference and estrangement between people, and the inability of real communication between people.

The author of Dill Pickles: Katherine Mansfield/Katherine Manthfield.

About the author:

Katherine Manthfield (1888-1923), a short story writer, a cultural feminist and the founder of New Zealand literature, is regarded as one of the most influential writers in New Zealand for more than 100 years.

Famous works include Reception in the Garden, Happiness and In the Bay. Her creation points to the living situation of women, and she provides a literary solution to the social problem of women's rights liberation in a unique form.

(1) Characteristic writing:

The theme of Mansfield's novels is often not difficult to understand. Her novels are very similar to Chekhov's works, and there are often some unexpected turns and changes in time and space. He is good at expressing the complicated and subtle relationship between men and women and the unexpected direction of passion development. At the same time, her writing is simplified as much as possible, and unnecessary words are deleted. She used a lot of modernist expressions, and showed a distinct modernist tendency by diluting the plot and the poetic language from the female perspective, impressionism skills and symbolism.

Mansfield devoted her short life to the creation of short stories, which were rarely valued by British writers and created many female images. With the pen in her hand, she melted into her own personal experience and life experience, described the ups and downs of her peers' struggle to join the WTO, portrayed the loneliness, disillusionment and fear of women under the pressure of capitalist social life, and expressed their deep thinking and silent sigh.

The infinite sympathy and indignation they encountered.

Images and symbols have always been writers' favorite writing techniques. Katherine Manthfield also uses a lot of formal techniques in her short stories, such as images, symbols and different narrative perspectives. In her novels, there is a special image group, which is endowed with its own special image mode beyond the traditional meaning: first, the tragic consciousness-loneliness and death; The second is childlike innocence-truth, goodness, beauty and chaos. In contrast, Mansfield believes that children are the best natural state of life and the highest ideal of personality. Therefore, she has been recalling her motherland and childhood all her life, describing the adults in childhood, which shows a tendency to return to the original and return to children. These images show the moral of the novel in miniature, reveal the theme of the novel, and convey the author's thought and emotional state.

Catherine thus formed the organic integration of traditional symbols and modern symbols, enriched the theme of her works and made her works enduring. Mansfield's novels are more like records of daily life. Her novels break away from the theme form of traditional novels in the choice of theme, but write ordinary characters and trivial things into novels, carefully select meaningful details to portray characters and reveal themes. This requires a keen eye to support the life scenes presented in Time Has Passed, which makes people feel the meaning of the writer in seemingly idle and relaxed daily life.

(2) Character evaluation:

Mansfield, a female writer, has experienced ups and downs in her short life. She was weak from childhood and famous for her beauty, but her life was basically unfortunate. The torture of tuberculosis and the failure of love were the reasons for her early death. In New Zealand, where the artistic life is poor, Mansfield gave up the happy and rich life in New Zealand and went to London, England alone in order to get better literary development. From the moment she set foot on the land of London, fate decided that she became a homeless wandering soul. Mansfield, who has a complicated personality, has also experienced an equally complicated life course. She has been roaming all her life-New Zealand, France, Germany and Britain have all left her footprints. In her wandering life, the only constant is her love of literature.

"No one has disturbed so many writers with her own creation like Katherine Manthfield." People say that she is like Lawrence and like Woolf ... Her writing time is accompanied by loneliness and illness, so her works are more related to family events and marital misfortune. She portrays people in a delicate way, often paying attention to details. It was not until many years after her death that her influence on the style of short stories was gradually recognized and recognized.

Her life is like the famous garden party she wrote in 192 1. She is like Laura in the novel. People saw a simple and stubborn rich girl break free from the noise of the garden party and bravely approach the outside world and the face of death. It's a quiet face that doesn't disturb everything in the world. This dead face looks even more real, energetic and beautiful than the people living around her.