Veil

Veil

by (british) Maugham

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"I know you are stupid, frivolous, and empty-minded, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, your power and vulgarity, but I love you. I know you are a second-rate thing, but I love you." In order to escape the flashy but empty social circle of London in the 1920s, Katie came to China with her husband Finn. Here, the lonely Kitty had an extramarital affair with the charming married man Charlie. When Finn found out, in order to retaliate and reorganize his life, he took his wife Kitty to practice medicine in a cholera-ravaged area. In the epidemic area, Katie re-examined her life path, experienced the painful process of turning from cocoon into butterfly, and began to learn how to love.

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书友20241203200_bd15mo ago

After reading it, my mood was not calm, but it was not very emotional either. I would say it was somewhere in between. There was relatively little description of the heroine's husband, but this character kept me calm for a long time, and I felt that this character was very three-dimensional. I had no illusions about you at all. I know you are stupid, frivolous, and empty-minded, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, and you are snobbish and vulgar, but I love you. I know you. You're a second-rate guy, but I love you. I've gone to great lengths to appreciate the things you're passionate about, and I've gone to great lengths to show you that I'm not ignorant, vulgar, gossipy, and stupid. I know that wisdom will shock you, so I'm careful to act like a fool like any man you meet. I know you're only marrying me for your own sake. I love you so much that I don't care. "Actually, I think he is very smart, so I think the heroine will slowly fall in love with her husband after recognizing the identity of the cheating partner. After all, he is so smart and kind. However, the heroine said that even though he is like this, she does not love him. This shocked me. But thinking about it, the heroine could have let her talk all day long and she would be happy, but her husband could not speak, which made the heroine feel boring. When I wrote this, I thought about the heroine. The main character's cheating seemed inevitable because she was already lively and could not accept this quiet life. Another point was that she was not very sad after her husband passed away. She was sad, but it was sad for the loss of a life, not for the loss of a close and loved person. And the heroine had a feeling of relief from this, because she loved her, but she did not love him. If they all left safely in the end, then There, when they return to their home, they still have friction, because he loves her, but she doesn't love him, even though she respects him. There is a reversal in what the heroine's husband said. I can't quite understand why such a wise and kind person would fall in love with the heroine. Although the heroine is beautiful and lively, maybe one of the points that I struggle with is that the heroine's husband is wise and devoted to experiments, and it may be because his life is relatively boring. Only then can I fall in love with someone with a character like the heroine. But the more I write about it, the more I feel that they will not be happy. Another big feeling for me is that they may live in another world. They have their own ideas and will not follow my ideas. Regarding the nuns and academicians, there is a layer of wall between them. To them, the heroine is one of the ordinary beings, not because of her. The change depends on the time they spent together. It may be because of what religion they believe in. In their view, they are devoted to the cause of dedication to mankind, so they treat all living beings the same and don't have too many other feelings. After the heroine returned, she got together with the cheating partner. I felt disgusted and speechless at first, but it seems that it was a direction of the story that they got together. The heroine did not have what she imagined. He is so decisive and sober. After the death of the heroine's mother, the heroine's father was relieved and wanted to start his own life. He was already sixty years old. When I saw him at sixty, I thought, could he be younger? Let's father agree to let them live together, but at that time, I think my father definitely disagreed, but in the end, my father thought for a while, and he finally agreed. At that time, I thought it was unreasonable, but in fact, it is in line with common sense. If my father was really such a person, then he would not have tolerated it for more than 30 years. He waited until the heroine's mother passed away before deciding to start his own life. , And the relationship between the heroine and his mother. His mother has been proud of the beauty of the heroine since she was a child, and hopes that she can marry into a good family. However, in the end, the heroine becomes an older leftover due to the selection. Well, to exaggerate, his mother is no longer proud of him, but is bored with him, and hopes to marry him off immediately. The biggest point that makes me feel is the exchange of interests. The essence of any relationship is an exchange of interests.

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Book Friend 202409055165717mo ago

There is no forgiveness at the end of the veil. This heroine is a idiot beauty. She is so stupid. She can only see the simple skin and cannot appreciate her husband's wisdom and noble personality [Cover your face and cry] [Cover your face and cry] [Cover your face and cry] Normal people will sympathize and regret their husbands after reading this book. I read this book in high school. Her husband is simply my ideal type [Cover her face and cry] [Cover her face and cry] [Cover her face and cry] I want to curse every time I read it. This is better than a woman. By the way, you should have heard that famous saying: I have no illusions about you at all. I know you are stupid, frivolous, and empty-headed, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, you are snobbish and vulgar, but I love you. I know you're a second-rate piece of shit, but I love you. I've gone to great lengths to appreciate the stuff you're into, and I've gone to great lengths to show you that I'm not ignorant, vulgar, gossipy, stupid. I know that wisdom will astound you, so I take care to act as much of a fool as any man you meet. I know you only married me for your own selfish reasons. I love you so much I don't care. "

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Book Friends 2024070743709013mo ago

It's really worth reading.

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🉑 Starry Sky🌌1mo ago

Two extreme but similar people

Finished reading. The images of the couple described in the book are very vivid and penetrating. Let's talk about our heroine Katie first. In the book, she is written as a growing woman. She goes from ignorance to gradually waking up and starting a new life in a very smooth process. The characters are very real, and even for most of the book, you may feel that the heroine is particularly annoying. She is so vain, lustful, selfish, stupid, short-sighted, stubborn, blind, and shameless. Even after talking about it later, she gradually awakened and realized that Charlie was an out-and-out villain, but she still couldn't help but think about him, and even did inappropriate things with him. But in this process, her struggle and hatred for herself were completely revealed. After all, she is just an ordinary woman who has experienced many blows and witnessed the cruel scenes in the world. She longed for a hug that could take on her pain. Therefore, her counterattacks after waking up again and again are not so difficult to understand. She has the courage to start over, and she has the courage to continue living. She has always had a kind of vitality in her that is endless. Even if she is dragged into the bottom, she can get up again. This is in great contrast with her husband, Walter. There is not much description of Walter in the book, but it is not difficult for us to see that on the surface he is a good husband who loves his wife and a good doctor who does his duty. He is a smart, serious and considerate gentleman, but he is also introverted, sensitive, suspicious and has low self-esteem. His love is both pure and fragile. He is too humble in love, and his love is too idealistic. He and Katie were from completely different worlds, and they didn't get along at all. There was only blind love in his eyes. He couldn't see the real Katie. He didn't know Katie's real needs. He might only be moved by his selfless and great love for Katie. Katie had tried to communicate with him many times, but he always refused Katie again and again with a stubborn attitude. His body seemed to be wrapped in a thick shell, and no one could get in. He pursues love that is absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely clean. He couldn't bear the reality once it became dirty. He couldn't forgive Katie, let alone himself who was still in love with Katie. Maugham wrote about him, not as a "loving husband", but as a person crushed by ideals. The last sentence "It was the dog that died" writes that he was the injured one, and it was Katie and Charlie who died. Although they look so different, they also have this very similarity, that is, their blind pursuit of love, and they are both too idealistic about love. Katie was like this early on, and Walter was like this throughout his life. But besides love, there are many other things in this world that should be seen. Love is a very small part of this world. No matter what setbacks we encounter, we must never lose our courage in life.

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Book Friends 20230513225_dc18mo ago

The plot is very ups and downs. The heroine's husband is not described much, but it makes people feel hard to calm down for a long time.

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