Grandma's Train Ticket
外婆的火车票
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 6k Words
- Genre
- Unknown
- Subgenre
- Unknown
- Updated
- 12d ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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1Chapters
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"Grandma's Train Ticket" is one of those realistic family short stories that is "not long, but has great stamina". What's really great about it is not that it depicts grandpa as a bad guy and grandma as a victim of suffering, but that it uses a torn and glued train ticket from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang in 1984, which costs 2.4 Yuan, to tell the story of the forty years that an old Chinese lady was devoured. The train ticket is the soul of the whole text "I saved for half a year. Your grandpa tore up the tickets and I glued them together." "That day I walked to the entrance of the village and came back. Your mother was only three years old. What would she do if I left?" This ticket is not a travel voucher, it is a runaway that never happened, and it is also proof that my grandmother was bound by her identity as mother, wife, and daughter when she was young. The criss-crossed transparent glue on the back resembles sutures for a wound, and also serves as a metaphor for the rest of her life: She didn't go to Zhanjiang, but fate had already stuck her in place.