The story profoundly reveals the decadent undertones of local human relations and officialdom, the alienation and binding of human nature by power, the decadence of desire, the class game, and the inability of small people to control themselves in the torrent of the system; the final point is: all techniques, connections, city government, and calculations will eventually come to an end, and national laws, party disciplines, state laws, and worldly justice are the eternal principles.
