In the eyes of many readers, Tigress is disgusting. In the reading class, I explored the characters in Camel Xiangzi with my students. The students' unanimous evaluation of Tigress is vulgar, mean, lazy and scheming.
For joy, everyone is more sympathetic. Because Tigress's tragedy is of her own making, joy is powerless, powerless and pitiful.
But in my opinion, Tigress and Joy have the same tragic reason.
I. Appearance and appearance
Chapter four, Tigress's first appearance. "Thirty-seven or eight years old, looking dignified and strong, so the man got a fright. Helping my father is a good hand, but no one dares to marry her. " In the following article, Gao Ma described it as "like a black tower". These descriptions are enough for readers to create a fierce and ugly image of an old maid for the second time. The rickshaw pullers around her were originally a group of vulgar men working hard, but even they looked down on Tigress from the outside.
Joy looks low-brow, healthy and comfortable. Chapter 17 "Joy is not ugly, tall, round face, well-proportioned eyebrows and eyes. There are also white and neat teeth, which is a bit awkward. " Because of her appearance, an unknown official bought her from Er for 200 yuan.
Ugly and beautiful things bring disaster to themselves.
Two. home environment
Tigress's mother died young, and she followed her father Si Liu since she was a child, joining a group of people and rude drivers in the garage. She has no gender consciousness, and no one has taught her how to be a girl and a woman, let alone what love is. As her biological father, Si Liu used her to manage the garage. He is worried that his daughter is married and he can't run the car dealership business by himself. Tigress can't be a woman, and the food she cooks is not delicious. I can't love. After marriage, I only ask Xiangzi for money and health, but I don't know how to get close to Xiangzi's heart. Without female common sense, I didn't even know that I needed more exercise to help me give birth when I was pregnant. All this laid the groundwork for her tragic fate.
Joy has parents and two younger brothers, but her father sold her in front of her mother. Then the whole family made new clothes with the money sold to her, and her mother cried for a long time in the new clothes. After her mother was killed by her father, she was abandoned by the officer and returned home. Her father forced her to receive guests and support the whole family. Such a family has no love, no money, no dignity and no future. It can be said that the weakness of mother and the cruelty of father are the direct reasons for forcing Joy to die.
These two families are deformed.
3. Relationship with Xiangzi
Tigress likes Xiangzi and uses tricks to intimidate Xiangzi into marrying her and getting pregnant. Joy and Xiangzi had a direct confession after Tigress died. Joy's death was the last straw to crush Xiangzi. It's hard to say which of them is closer to Xiangzi. But one thing is certain: Xiangzi is not close to them.
Xiangzi never liked Tigress from beginning to end. Some are just a little desire and impulse after getting drunk, and they are unwilling to compromise after weighing the pros and cons. He hated Tigress's appearance and was afraid of Tigress's strength and her demands. Therefore, at the critical moment when Tigress gave birth to one person and two lives, he gave up asking a doctor to watch Tigress die, not so much because of the production cost of tens of yuan, but because of the psychological shadow Tigress brought him.
Xiangzi really likes joy. After hanging himself with joy, Xiangzi sank completely, and his shadow was like a walking corpse. Every time I get drunk, I go to the Woods where Joy hangs and cry.
But Joy blushed when she was alive, and Xiangzi was worried about her rogue father Er Qiangzi and his two underage brothers. He was worried that he would be imprisoned by poverty at home and could not realize his dream of buying a car at all-he left Joy.
Tigress gave Xiangzi money, but Xiangzi didn't like Tigress and couldn't give him love. Joy gave him love, but Xiangzi was worried that joy could not give him dreams. Xiangzi blamed everything on poverty. "Love or not, the poor decide the money. Love is only born in a rich family. " He lived in his own consciousness until he lost everything.
Exploring the tragic reasons of Tigress and Joy, it is undeniable that the social and family background is the bleak background of their lives, endless, desolate and painful. Although Xiangzi was pure in heart, he also made contributions. One tragedy writes another tragedy, a nightmare comes true, and another nightmare. Finally, in the gale of the times, the weak are like dust and sand, floating in the sky and dreaming quietly.