Anyone could see that the old girl Kitty didn't marry the taciturn doctor Walter Finn for love. That opening description of the pompous feasts of London's high society in the 1920s led me to follow a similar plot in Pride and Prejudice. It's just a turn of the camera, Kitty agrees to Fein's marriage proposal with resentment because of the phone call from her mother, and the story does not move to China at that time as I expected. Fein was almost giving up his pride and trying to please Kitty without changing her a little bit. Instead, Kitty sees Finn as a parental accomplice who stifles her freedom of marriage and ruins her life's happiness. At that time, she tried her best to find the passion that could arouse hope in her life, as if in a life that seemed like stagnant water. Until, she met the married man Townsend.
The illegitimate relationship between them lasted for a long time, and finally broke out when Fein couldn't bear it. During this period, there was no lack of Kitty's panic and Finn's patience. From the time Finn helped Kitty bring the record sent by her father, all this was formed in Finn's step-by-step concessions. It's just that Kitty still doesn't understand, and even managed to maintain that unbearable extramarital affair. It's just that she doesn't know that everything still exists in Fein's complacency with all his strength.
The flashpoint of the story takes place in a fringe town where Finn is desperate to devote himself to cholera. All this seems to be revenge, but also to give life a new beginning. In that marginal town almost closed to the outside world, Kitty saw the real and direct impact of death. In the terrifying sound of the exorcism she peeped into her own fear, the fear of life and life. At the moment when Fein rushed to protect her, she heard the strongest shock to her heart. While working at the monastery, she saw a life experience that was diametrically opposed to what she had been before. In that isolated world, she instead found a way to communicate with her husband. But just when the plot was calm, it suddenly turned sharply. The second breaking point of the story slammed open, like a door that had been slammed open that night, and heard the most feared but had to believe details: Finn contracted cholera.
Kitty had seen countless deaths from cholera, but she refused but had to believe that the husband who had gradually made her love away was going to leave her. Until the lifeless feet of Finn buried under a shovel of dust. She becomes madly obsessed with Fein's love. Only, only she knew it was too late. The past she didn't cherish created her present regret, and Fein's "forgive me" also gave her the final decision to continue to be firm in her love for Fein in her long life. The end of the story is my favorite place, still at the florist where Fein proposed to Kitty, but with Kitty standing next to their son. When encountering Townsend on the road, Kitty rejected Townsend's seemingly normal but unfinished request. Only Kitty knew that her determination was no longer as weak as it was then.
It seems to have verified the old saying "you don't learn to cherish until you lose it". The love that only met at the time of parting will make people sigh. But Kitty's persistent love can be said to be an atonement for Finn. Because we can't resist the pull of time, but let us know that love is not explained by a hug and a kiss, it is something deeper and requires time to precipitate. Just like Kitty, Fein once had silent love for herself, and she would repay her silent love all her life. So, my dears, do you understand? Don't hurt the person around him or her because of your willfulness. Love is equally great no matter how humble or not.
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