From the moment when the male protagonist exiled the bamboo raft on his own, it means that he gave up the competition in the larger world of society (promotion, making more risky money, such as starting a business), and instead chose to return to the family and run the two-person world. Xiaojia's harbour (island), although the conditions are simple and the economy is not well-off, can obtain freedom and peace of mind.
The couple have adapted to this slow-paced life, quiet, simple, happy, and beautiful. At the same time, however, there was no accumulation of excess wealth, and only basic living conditions were maintained, which continued until the birth of a child and into adulthood.
As long as it is a human being, it has the attributes of a society, and the family must also accept the influence of the entire economic system. Finally, a certain financial turmoil or economic crisis (the Japanese real estate bubble, the European debt crisis) had a huge impact on the society, and the male protagonist's family, who had no sense of risk, was swept away and scarred.
Fortunately, I didn't have much money at first. With the unremitting efforts of the whole family, it didn't take a long time to get through the difficult and embarrassing days
. The son already has more substantial knowledge and ability than the previous generation (can breathe underwater), and this fact was also proved in the process of saving the family last time. He expects to plunge into the torrent of society and pursue his career peak. So he and his parents proposed to go to the big city, "Osaka is too small, I have to go to the Bank of Tokyo to file a lawsuit... Paris is my stage, I can't do anything in small Verrières!
" The failure of the tide, today's frustrated father, has no power and reason to stop the progress of the descendants, and can only let it go.
The latter is too sad, full of pessimistic fatalism...Old age has nothing to support...Parents from middle age to old age, the loss of their bodies and vitality is so obvious. Although it is cruel, in fact, the years after retirement are very difficult for ordinary people, especially those who do not live with their children in Japan, and there are many suicides.
Even if they support each other, one of them will inevitably reach the end of his life first... At the moment before his death, he thinks of his wife, misses his son, looks back on his life, looks at the direction from which he came, and reluctantly enters Shakespeare's seventh A stage "nothingness after death". And, the very lonely lover left, stumbled more painfully in the years to come, ageing toward death.
PS: As I said on the previous floor, in reading Liao Zhai, patting on the table and other anecdotes, I have seen a few "adventures" such as ordinary people being son-in-law on a deep mountain island, which is no different from a dream. At some point, there will also be some kind of explicit hint that the protagonist suddenly ages rapidly physically, "Happiness is only a thought, and the world has passed for decades", which is really endless sigh (the legend of the Japanese crane repaying kindness).
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