Veil

In fact, I thought it was a love story when I read it based on the male protagonist's lines, but then I found that the core of the story is very good.

It's so beautiful. There is no language or expression that is difficult to understand like in the West. I think what's great about the author is that both characters are well written – I marvel at Katie's courage in facing this accusation, but I can also understand Walter's painful love. Nowadays, many people on the Internet criticize the male protagonist for his arrogance. But this is how I understand this sentence: You don't belong to me, I can't get you, your heart belongs to a man I don't like and can't become, so I want to say that you are stupid, frivolous, and shallow-minded; I know that man does not love you at all, and he loves you far less than I do, but you are still wishful thinking. , So I hate you for being stupid, frivolous, and shallow-minded; because you are stupid, frivolous, and shallow-minded, you will never realize how painfully and deeply I love you, and you will never love me as deeply as I love you; finally, I know that you are stupid, frivolous, and shallow-minded, but I still can't stop loving you.

I came here based on the words of the male protagonist of the comic. After reading it, my heart was greatly improved, but I was also sad.

It looks great and the translation is very, very good. Many of the heroine's thoughts after a century are similar to mine, and I agree with her, although it may be a bit morally controversial hahh. Although it was a pity that her husband died, how could she live freely if her husband and her mother did not die? Her husband still has a bigger problem, because he loves the heroine to death because of his beauty, and when he finds out that the heroine is cheating on her, he takes her to die. He has a very extreme personality. I have to say that the dialogue between these characters is really great.

After "The Moon and Sixpence", I finished reading "The Veil", one is a dream and the other is growth. Katie's character and vanity are all shaped by the environment. Just like I am sensitive, quiet and timid, it often resonates with her a lot. In fact, the original Katie was still like a child. She was very simple at heart and would do whatever her parents said. Sometimes she was very naughty and got married in a hurry out of anger. Undoubtedly, both Walter and Waddington are her mentors in life, allowing her, who is vain, selfish and short-sighted, to adapt and grow in the new environment, see people's hearts, see all living beings, see herself, learn to love and be loved, and find the meaning of life. Undoubtedly, she is also a child who listens to advice, knows how to think, and knows how to change. In just a few months, her mental age has grown from a teenager to forty or fifty years old. Undoubtedly, this period of growth is also painful, and she is also losing maturity. But, fortunately, she is brave and optimistic. I think she will become a good mother. At least, she will love her daughter very much. Not only she, but also her daughter will become a free and brave woman. In this way, Mr. Maugham's writing about the growth of women is undoubtedly a support and encouragement for women in that era, and it is the same today. So a masterpiece is a masterpiece. Time will not make it rot, it will only settle into its essence. I think it is worth reading it.

It's really good. Maugham's thoughts are very advanced. He thinks about issues from a female perspective and writes very detailed and appropriate things. Among them, the male protagonist's feelings for the female protagonist are not described much, but they are touching. The female protagonist's thoughts are gradually changing, which is a growth type. At the same time, there are some ironies mixed in, such as the heroine having sex with the second man at his home. Even though her thoughts are progressing, she cannot completely get rid of her love and desire.

A masterpiece is indeed worthy of being a masterpiece. The author's thoughts are a hundred years ahead of the world. I think the author can still live with it even in modern times. The male writer has written modern female stories. There are many women who are capable and ambitious but can only rely on their husbands to realize their ideals in life. I was shocked when I saw the ending. The thoughts and activities from the female perspective are very detailed. The others are also very three-dimensional. I praise the author's insight. Reading this book, I always feel like the history I have learned comes alive. It is also the first time I see Chinese people from a foreigner's perspective. It feels very novel, right? The author in the book also shows his identification with Chinese culture. Do you think Westerners are barbaric [face covering]? Very aware. There is no doubt about the author's writing ability. It is very picturesque and charming. However, the translation is not very good. How can I put it, it seems neither Chinese nor Western, very abrupt. The plot development was a bit beyond my expectation. I thought Katie would fall in love with Walton, but I didn't expect the heroine's love. The view is so firm [face covering], and she sticks to herself, and the heroine is also very outspoken. I don't know if it's the cultural differences between China and the West, or the author breaking through the secular world and showing an almost indifferent attitude in a realistic way. The plot seems immoral at first glance. Moral corruption, but the author did make things right, and it is reasonable. From everyone's point of view, there seems to be nothing wrong. Alas, I quite like the male protagonist, but it is true that he and the female protagonist are in two different worlds, and living is a kind of torture for each other. I still like to read my sweet article [almost crying]. I also looked up the author. He may be like the male protagonist, silent and introverted, but I still tend to think that the author is the sum of his characters, including Katie's forthrightness and growth, Waddington's sharpness, etc. Read classics, see others, see yourself, see all sentient beings, and encourage each other.

The delicate female vision and the changes in the heroine's attitude towards her lover and husband outline the growth of the heroine. From selfish desires to great love, sinking to reflection. The husband does not appear much, but the description is very distinctive. The characters are created very interestingly.

Maugham's "The Veil" made me cry, it was so beautiful. The abbess of Mae Tam House is so noble and vividly demonstrates the most selfless love of mankind. Waddington, the second male lead, is also very charming, very humorous, and has a deep understanding of human nature. He had a sincere conversation with Katie in the epidemic area and became friends, which promoted her self-reflection and subsequent transformation. But I think the most charming character is the male protagonist Walter. He loves so noblely. Although he knows that the heroine is frivolous and stupid, he still loves her. He knows that the heroine is hypocritical and unfaithful, but he still loves her. He loves her to the point where he hates himself and still loves her. Human nature is really too complicated. It's just a pity that he died in the end. He was obsessed and unwilling to let himself go. His love eventually turned into a shackles, which is really sad. At the same time, the heroine in it is also a very complex character. Her family has shaped her bad character and reflects the destructive characteristics of people. I really hated her at first. I hated her for being frivolous and stupid. She clearly had the best choice, but she blindly fell in love with the hypocritical villain Charlie. I hated her for not cherishing her beauty and intelligence. But after reading about her growth trajectory, I can understand it again. The rotten atmosphere of the upper class, the mother's snobbery, and the father's loss of position in the family led to her becoming like that. Of course, Katie is not completely without merits. She is good at craftsmanship, has a high emotional intelligence, is lively and cute, and is as naive about love as a little girl. After all, no one is perfect, and I seem to understand everything after seeing it in the end. But fortunately, Katie finally grew up, awakened to egoism, understood the boundaries of love, and understood that women are not born to be male attachments and decorations, or entertainment tools and wives, and profoundly completed the transformation of female independence. The psychological descriptions in this book are great, every time it is so vivid and real, this is a human being, a living human being, and it is only with flaws that we call ourselves human! It's so amazing to me, it's simply art, that it makes me write such a long article. Finally, I am sincerely glad that in the end Katie found her love and responsibility, found the peaceful road that cannot reach the sky or the ground, and found her inner peace. Let us cheer for her!

Very nice. I especially liked the days when Katie and Walter lived in Meitan Mansion, like the heavy fog that the sun could not penetrate in the morning, and I was moved by their love-hate entanglement. It was a pity that Walter died, but he had to die, and Katie needed an opportunity to grow up. All in all, a very good piece of work.

It focuses on describing a woman who grew up in an environment where fame and wealth were valued, and who took refuge in a high-status man as her life goal, and then fell into an illegitimate love affair with Charles Townsend. Through some things, she saw Charles' true face. After seeing the fragile life under the disease, and seeing the nun who still adheres to her original intention in the line between life and death, she began to understand that in the face of the righteousness of life and death, the small love between men and women is insignificant, and began to pursue the truth. Although she made the same mistake again, she recognized herself more clearly and chose to leave and make changes. This is her growth.

The movie has made a lot of changes to the original text of the novel, and many places are "welcome to read". For example, the discussion between the heroine and the hero about the nuns in Mae Zhang Mansion had a profound impact, so the two also untied their knots, but there is no such thing in the book. The hero still dies in despair, and in the end After returning to Hong Kong, the heroine was still tempted by her lover. This plot was deleted from the movie. The death of her mother at the end was also a sublimation. Although the heroine who experienced all this was still confused by desire, she also learned to recognize people and things and see the essence clearly. The descriptions of Walton in the novel are mostly from the side, and it is difficult to know his true thoughts, not to mention the heroine, who only has happiness in her heart. Walton's behavior is too arrogant and self-tortured, and "love" is also arrogant...

I think it's very interesting. It brings me a different feeling. Maybe it's because foreign novels are different from domestic novels. It makes me see some different things. What I feel is a pity is that the heroine didn't seem to fall in love with the hero in the end, but it doesn't seem to be that important. Later, when the heroine said that she wanted to have a girl and taught him something, I thought that sentence was very good and very warning. Maybe I have read too many happy endings, so that I want the male protagonist in this book to have a good ending. I think that he is so good, so good, so he should have such a good ending, such a good person, his temperament should not cheat, he should have a good marriage, and the child should be his. That would be great. Unfortunately, not everyone can have a happy ending. Not everyone who gives love will definitely receive a response. As for the heroine, I personally think she is quite pitiful. After all, what his mother taught him is that he should, uh, get involved in more social interactions, go to the upper class, make friends with a lot of people, and then join the upper class and change his class and status. He is actually forced to marry, not because he likes someone, so he marries that person just because his mother wants her to marry, and she wants to marry. It may also be that I have read the kind of storyline where love comes first, so when I read it for the first time, I thought that they can get along slowly and fall in love in the process of getting along like the storylines I have seen before, where they get along slowly and fall in love while getting along. But this book does not have such a plot. On the contrary, the heroine cheated on her and he did not fall in love with the hero. Later, the hero took them to another city. The hero did a lot of good things. The heroine also developed some affection for her because of this incident, but it seemed that he did not like him. Alas, there is also the mother of the heroine. I think he is quite pitiful. He is powerful. He hopes that his two daughters can join a good family and that his husband can get a better position. He seems to have been doing these things all his life. But when her husband took that position, he was gone. He spent his whole life planning these things. As a result, he was not able to see these things until his death. It is very sad.

In fact, many things in the world are not always rewarded, nor do they all end with a sigh of relief. I thought that Katie would despise and hate the scumbag and stay away from him decisively, but she didn't. I thought she would degenerate and become innocent with a scumbag, but she didn't. She has feelings that make her unable to control herself, and she also regrets and makes a new start. Sometimes I want to curse Katie for being ignorant, but sometimes when I see the self-blame in her heart, I start to feel that she is not hopeless. In the final analysis, people's understanding of the world, their understanding of right and wrong, and their understanding of themselves are accumulated from many things, not imagined out of thin air. There is no strong reversal of the ending, there is no perfect character, this is normal life.

I think it would be better if it was made into a movie🎦 The rhythm of the plot is very tight, which makes people want to continue reading. Katie's unfaithfulness to love was punished as it should be, but it also made her realize her mistakes and ignorance. However, I think the most gratifying thing is that through her life experience, she learned that she had returned from the lost path. At least in the end, she knew how to plan her future for her unborn child. In fact, Katie has been reborn (heart)! Highly recommend this book "The Veil"

This book allowed me to see a woman's growth and self-redemption. Katie experienced the test of life and death in a cholera epidemic area, and also re-examined her life. Maugham's description is very delicate, which made me feel the atmosphere of that era. This reminds me of Madame Bovary, which is also about women's self-awakening. However, Katie is braver and more real than Emma, ​​and she finally finds her heart's desire. This book is worth reading and will give people a lot to think about.

Although this book has a greater meaning, I did fall in love with Mr. Walter hopelessly, and felt sorry for him when he said "because I love you." After his death, I recalled his clumsy pursuit of Katie, silently going to parties again and again, and using his great courage to express love. Although I understand Katie very well, I understand that it is not easy for her to grow up, but forgive me because I am really just a little girl, I am very emotional, and I know that girls cannot be given everything by a man's absurd love, which is stupid (but such love for Walter is still very touching, of course I know that he only exists in literary works) After Walter's death , Katie only felt relieved. This was the first time I failed to understand the character. Maybe it was because I loved the character of Walter too much. I understood Katie from the beginning. I understood that if you don't love, you can't change the fact. I even forgave her so-called infidelity from the beginning, but fortunately, Katie changed in the end, and she was truly sublimated. Mr. Walter's personality charm makes this book a member of my bookshelf. I'm sorry. Such a good book, but what I love most is such a special character. I'm sorry. I feel that Maugham made it difficult for me to be a human being. He wrote Walter's love so great. But standing in Katie's position, I don't understand this love at all, and I don't love him at all. I was originally a player who scored zero points in the test. You clearly know that, but once I got a negative one in the test, you expressed that you were very disappointed with me, but why? I know what kind of person I am, and I don't think it's a big deal. Since you chose me like this, why should you be disappointed in me? Since you chose the bad me in the first place, you should accept that I am such a bad person. People who have read the book can easily take this point of view to a moral level. After all, Katie is an adult and has to pay the price for her decisions. But on a personal level, Katie feels like she has done something wrong? After all, she has always been this kind of person [I don't know how to express my understanding because I don't have enough vocabulary]. But similarly, since she chose to marry Walter, she should abide by her obligations and should not betray her lover. It's so contradictory that I can't even sleep when I say it. My favorite passage in the book is "Because I love you" and later Katie says it's unfair to her. I read it over and over again to understand how important that sentence is. She said that Walter went to the market to buy not a pearl necklace but an ordinary product. What he is actually saying here is that Katie is a pearl necklace, not an ordinary product. What you want is an ordinary product but I'm sorry, I am a pearl necklace. After all, it is wrong for two people to go together. I suddenly found that Walter's deep love somewhat obscured my vision, and even made me reflect on whether I would be deceived by a man's so-called love, but I hope that the character is full, and I believe that this love is real.

This is a very good book with distinct characters and delicate emotions. And it shows the shortcomings of human nature. Through the heroine, he showed this shortcoming to the fullest, but he once again showed the truth, goodness and beauty of people through her. (A stupid person is not necessarily a bad person, she just lacks sense)

The author describes the heroine's inner activities very realistically and vividly, and it is very immersive, but I don't know whether it is because the author is of a different era or is a little unaccustomed to the author's narrative style. In terms of content and plot, for a shameless villain like Charlie, he should be punished and draw a clear line between him and the heroine to protect her. This was the ending I expected at the beginning. But in the end, the heroine and her father can resume their family relationship, which also shows that the heroine is slowly getting better, which is also gratifying.

It was so real that I almost couldn't watch the next ten chapters. The heroine is the only protagonist, the others are either passers-by in her life or mentors. The veil lifts the scumbag's side, the male protagonist's side, the female protagonist's side, and finally the parents' side. This translation is not very to my liking. The poems that come out from time to time seem to be written by Chinese writers at first glance, and they cannot achieve the meaning of the original text. I gave it one star because of the tension between the protagonist and the scumbag in the last ten chapters. Somerset Maugham loved writing conflicting plots. The last book he read was "The Moon and Sixpence", and that one was also the same. Anyway, it's so bloody. What is worthy of praise here is the courage of the nuns, how terrible cholera is, and their willingness to selflessly take care of the sick and abandoned girls. Faith is in their hearts and put into action. They have influenced the heroine's thoughts, but what I really want to say is that the third male character (because the third one appears and has more roles) has no real best friend than this, who enlightens the heroine and is a soul guide. In the whole book, it occupies the most scenes, and in the end, it paves the way for the heroine. The writing of the male protagonist is perfect, but he is obsessed with it. He knows that the female protagonist does not love her, but he never lets her go. He's a bit like a tool man because he's a bit perfect and not like a real person. I even knocked them off, but forget it. The heroine's thoughts changed very quickly in the middle. Later I realized how it was possible that she just compromised after staying in the same environment for a long time, but it still took a lot of time. She's not perfect, but she's not bad. At least she's sober.

It's very sad, but the difference between these novels and online articles is that the author is responsible for describing stories that are very reasonable but full of conflicts. Internet articles often sacrifice authenticity and rationality for the attraction and excitement of the plot. After reading this book, it feels like I have watched a person's life, and it feels like I have lived it all over again. I admit that I am also as shallow, selfish and vain as the heroine at the beginning. I am timid to take on the responsibilities of life and want to find someone to rely on, but I also long for wealth and status. I place my unrealistic desires on my husband. The most disgusting thing is that when my husband fails to meet my expectations, I still sneer at him and be full of contempt. I am about to graduate, and I often suffer from worries about the future and feel timid. Now that I think about it, it's just that I don't have the spirit of independence and hope for an unrealistic life. See your own position clearly, start from a small place in a down-to-earth manner, and work hard but still be down-to-earth. There are many sentences that I love in this book. I will definitely reread or excerpt them.

Because of that out-of-the-circle sentence: I know you are stupid, frivolous, and mindless, but I love you. I have always stayed away from this book before. I always felt that this sentence conveyed a sense of contempt and superiority. That kind of self-motivated dedication and unequal arrogance makes me disgusted. But after actually watching it, I was even speechless and out of breath. I just felt that the excitement kept rising and falling, and it never dissipated in my heart. That scornful word had grown so thick. Love cannot make people so humble and so twisted. It was a tragedy that had no solution from the beginning, and it was also a bottomless despair destined to destruction.

This is a book for all those who are emotionally confused. It tells us: Don't pin your life on love and others. Real salvation is never about being saved, but about tearing apart the veil of life, accepting your imperfect self, and finding peace and strength deep in your soul.

The author's writing style is very comfortable, as if he is chatting with you. I felt that under the influence of her mother, she lived her life as she pleased, but she slowly discovered that this was wrong. The situation forced her to enter a new place, where she changed her mind little by little, from taking it for granted - to anxiety and panic - to regret and self-blame - to wanting a new breakthrough - to moving towards the goal.

Finished reading! This book is not only the sublimation of Katie's soul, but also a baptism for the readers' thoughts. Beautiful! Recommend!

It is an excellent book with a fascinating and thought-provoking plot. I stayed up all night reading it. I actually cried because Katie kept begging for love, whether it was love or family affection, because I was the same way, and this was the knot in my heart. Reminds me of the saying "It's just love, don't lose to it"

I like this one better than the author's "The Moon and Sixpence". Make people feel the beauty of words

Real life, unpredictable life, Katie suddenly woke up after experiencing blows and setbacks. What helped her grow was her own experience, as well as the wind of freedom brought by Walton's death. The wild fires flickered, and the spring breeze blew slowly, starting a prairie fire...

It's beautiful and the emotions are portrayed very delicately. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to stand it. But gradually I became more and more fascinated by it. I also learned that when you love someone, don't just look at the surface. The heart is the most important. An interesting soul is much more important than a good-looking skin.

I read this book because of this famous passage, but it was different from the love story I imagined, and it was very painful to read. In the early stage, the heroine was stupid and frivolous, always relying on others to seek love as her pillar of value, but her husband's love was too hypocritical and her lover's love was too shallow, and her awakening was too painful and her goal was too vague. In the end, the heroine did not become wise in a dramatic way, but she still had a firm awakening. Katie, I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for you who are young, vulgar, brave and painful.