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When educating my daughter, I want to make her free mind and I want her to be independent. I gave birth to my daughter and brought it to this world, and I will truly love her and raise her, rather than finding a man for her one day. Perhaps, this man just wants to sleep with her, so he is willing to provide her with a support for her life for the rest of her life.
This is a passage that Maugham said to his father at the end of the novel " Veil ". From this passage, readers can feel her reflection on her past. She despised herself from the past and decided to break the past with her, go to a strange place with her father, and start her life again.
Through reflection on herself, Katie has clear expectations for the future. She hopes to use her own experience and lessons to educate her children so that they can be independent and have good qualities, and not place their future happiness on relying on others, and live a better life than herself.
Katy had this idea because of her experience. Her growth environment allowed her to develop a shallow and vanity character, which allowed her to endure the torture of emotions and life on the road of life, and all of this is related to her mother.
There is a saying that a family can benefit three generations of people by marrying a good woman. This sentence talks about the importance of a woman to a family. Countless reality tells us that this is right. A good woman is a good wife and a good mother. She can make the family atmosphere harmonious and stable, and everything will be prosperous if the family is harmonious.
In "Veel", when we look at the life experience of the protagonist Katie, we cannot ignore an image that has not appeared much but has a profound impact, that is Katie's mother, Mrs. Justin. In the eyes of the author, she is harsh, merciless, meddling in other people's business, arrogant, stingy with money, and extremely stupid.
This comment is so sarcastic, and in fact, what she did deserves such a review, and because she is such a person, it has brought endless pain to her husband and children that many years later, her death did not bring them much sadness, but rather more relaxed.
1. She asked her husband according to her expectations
Mr. Justin was energetic, diligent and hardworking when she was young, and she was very talented. When Mrs. Justin first met him, she thought he was a promising person. Unexpectedly, Mr. Justin was not keen on promotions.
Mrs. Justin believes that only by relying on her husband's success can she enjoy wealth and prosperity. Therefore, although he despises his husband for not being motivated, he can only deliberately encourage him to work hard according to his own intentions.
In order to achieve her goal of controlling her husband, she kept talking and accusing her, showing no mercy until her husband was disturbed by her, and would agree to her request. It’s quite terrifying to have such a woman around you, making people feel at ease, and living in such a family atmosphere is so depressing.
Not only did she point fingers at her husband's behavior, she also thought she was self-righteous and tried her best to please, flatter and flatter those who might be useful to her husband. She always has a big banquet for guests, but she will tact on the ingredients and use the least amount of money to make the most exaggerated appearance.
Her husband's lawyer business is not satisfactory, so she wants him to run for Congress. But due to her stinginess, the cost of donating to the campaign fund is always short of weight, and failure is inevitable.
Her endless quarrels and scolding made her husband agree to apply to be a royal barrister, and she did not consider that her income would be sharply reduced by half after becoming a royal barrister.
Poor Justin felt disappointed, but he didn't show any expression. His blame for his wife was buried deep in his heart. At the same time, he had to endure the resentment of his wife and children towards him due to their reduced income and reduced quality of life.
The family has a virtuous wife, which is better than a thousand hectares of good land. And a person like Mrs. Justin will only make people feel irritable and helpless, and physically and mentally exhausted. She would not consider what her husband was thinking, but would just ask her husband according to her own ideas and use despicable means to make her husband surrender to her.
And she does not have any extraordinary wisdom, which can benefit her husband from her suggestions. So Mr. Justin could only live a painful life under her control that could not satisfy his wife and was also suppressed.
2. She arranged her daughter's life according to her expectations
This is how she treats her husband. You can imagine how her children will view her father. She places her happiness on her husband's success, so she will instill such thoughts in her daughters, or her daughter can also experience this from her mother.
When daughters feel that their father's income has decreased, their lives have become more difficult, they will not think that their father's work is too hard, but are cold to him, think it is his father's fault, and feel resentment and contempt for his father.
When Mrs. Justin has been busy for more than ten years for her husband's promotion, she has little results and no room for improvement, she has shifted her attention to her two daughters.
Katie is the eldest daughter, she is as beautiful as a flower, so she must find a good family to make up for her depressed and unsuccessful life. The second daughter looks mediocre and just finds a young man with a wealthy family and a stable job. She had a good idea.
Mrs. Justin spent a lot of effort on Katie, and seemed to have enough maternal love, but that maternal love was mixed with coldness and ruthlessness and plot. She was ambitious about her daughter's future, not for her daughter's happiness, but for the realization of her own life dream.
Mrs. Justin is destined to be a tragic character, because things never follow the route she designed. Katie entered the social circle at the right time, and her beauty was amazing, but several social seasons were over, and the suitors' conditions were getting worse and worse. Katie never found a partner who satisfies her status and financial resources.
Mrs. Justin began to be dissatisfied with Katie, warning her that her youth is fleeting, but Katie still disagreed. She felt that her wishful husband would come sooner or later. Mrs. Justin was furious about some of the opportunities Katie missed.
When Katie was twenty-five years old and had not yet gotten married, Mrs. Justin's dissatisfaction with her daughter was no longer hidden. She often scolded Katie, saying that she was so old and spent her father's money. Her father spent so much money and created so many opportunities, she let the opportunity slip away in vain. She felt that Katie failed to get married because she was stupid and ignorant. It's enough to say that my daughter is.
You can imagine how sad Katie is in this family atmosphere. So when Walter, who had been silently loving Katie, proposed to her, she knew that he did not meet her requirements for the husband, but when she thought of her mother's attitude towards her, she didn't want to stay in that house anymore. Marrying him, she had an explanation for herself and mother.
When Katie chose a marriage partner, she never thought about the character of this person and whether she would be happy if she lived with him. She only considered the other person's status and wealth. When she faced the need to make a choice, she just used marriage as an excuse or a reason to escape. She knew that she had made a big mistake after only three months of marriage.
She and Walter were not the same as each other. Even if Walter loved him so much, she could not get close to him, so she did not cherish it at all. She doesn't know him and has different personalities. So when she met Tang Sen, she was immediately attracted by Tang Sen, and soon she got into a hot fight.
She thought she had found true love, but it was actually just a game of love. Katy, who suffered from emotional damage, came to Meitan Mansion with Walter.
There, Katie met a group of selfless and fearless nuns, felt the brilliance of their kindness and holiness, witnessed death, felt the value and significance of Walter, and lost Walter forever.
I didn't stay in Meitan Mansion for long, but Katie understood many truths. She thought of her ignorance and shallowness, and she tried to find her spiritual pillar.
When she returned home alone, her mother passed away the day before she returned.When she saw her mother's face, she did not feel sad. Because she has a deep grudge with her mother, she knows that the bitter fruits of fate are all caused by her mother.
She just felt a little melancholy, and what her mother pursued throughout her life were insignificant and worthless things. Justin felt relieved when his wife passed away. For more than 30 years, he had been suffering from pain.
Under the blow of reality, Katie deeply reflected on her past. Through her short life in Meitan Mansion, she understood how to live a meaningful life.
So when she decided to go to that distant strange place with her father, taking care of her elderly father, in order to compensate and make up for her love for her father for her hard work in ignoring her father’s hard work to support her family.
Through reflection on her life lessons, she has the courage to face life. She made up her mind to educate her daughter well and not let her daughter follow her old path again. She hopes that the child has an independent personality, has a true self, does not rely on others, can live freely, and live better than her.
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