Loss of Humanity

"The Loss of Humanity" contains ten of Maugham's short stories. "Makintosh" is based on a Southeast Asian island country. It tells the story of a vulgar, reckless, authoritarian white colonial governor. On the one hand, he adopted a paternalistic high-pressure control policy on the local residents, and used all kinds of tricks to suppress the strike resistance organized by the chief's son, causing those who opposed him to suffer. But on the other hand, he deeply loved the island and regarded it as "the Garden of Eden" and the people on the island as "his children"... "Rain" is set on the island of Hawaii. It tells the story of the devout and paranoid Christian missionaries Davidson and his wife, and their expulsion of Miss Thompson, a female neighbor who they regarded as "unclean, depraved and improper". However, in the process of "rescuing" Thompson with Christian doctrine, Davidson could not help but become obsessed with Thompson...