As She Lay Dying
by H
About This Novel
"As She Lays Dying" is Beauvoir's memoir about the relationship between her mother and her daughter. When she received the news that her mother had been injured in a fall, Beauvoir thought it was just an ordinary fracture, but the unexpected discovery of cancer quickly took her mother away within a few weeks. Amidst the endless guilt and sorrow, Beauvoir recorded the last moments between mother and daughter, interspersed with memories of his mother's life and reflections on the relationship between mother and daughter. In Beauvoir's eyes, the mother is humble yet arrogant, strong yet fragile, sacrificing herself for marriage and family, yet unable to give up her control and invasion of her daughter. She once hated and feared her mother, but now facing this dying old woman in the hospital bed, her heart was filled with compassion and deep love. In this book, she rarely reveals her soft core, but her perspective is still sharp. Through her personal experience, her reflections on social issues such as women's status and end-of-life ethics are also thought-provoking. Through this work full of pain, tenderness, regret and contradiction, Beauvoir will lead us to re-understand the meaning of aging, death, life and love.
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Controlled by the God of Death, the pain is too much to live in old age
The author expresses the various situations in detail and realism, such as the doctor's rigid and prescribed treatment of his mother when she was dying, the reluctance of herself and her sister to give up life, and the reluctance of her mother to pass away. He talks about the fate of human beings after birth. The happiness of young people comes from the God of Love, and the cruel and painful old age is controlled by the God of Death.
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Official(1)Scraped 1mo ago
Controlled by the God of Death, the pain is too much to live in old age
The author expresses the various situations in detail and realism, such as the doctor's rigid and prescribed treatment of his mother when she was dying, the reluctance of herself and her sister to give up life, and the reluctance of her mother to pass away. He talks about the fate of human beings after birth. The happiness of young people comes from the God of Love, and the cruel and painful old age is controlled by the God of Death.
