"I am determined to keep my daughter away from all this. I hope she will become a brave and sincere person. I hope she will be an upright person, not dependent on anyone, and be in control of herself. I hope she will live freely and live a more exciting life than I did."
Faced with her lover's betrayal, Katie had to go with her husband to a strange country where cholera was rampant. After witnessing poverty and disease, betrayal and death, she finally unveiled the veil of humanity and recognized the direction of her life...
In the history of human literature, Maugham, who was born to tell stories, traveled to China many times. He used the story of a woman who came to China because of a failed marriage to tell the real life situation of women and wrote a history of women's spiritual growth.
