The hero Ove is an out-and-out empty-nest paranoid old man.
At the beginning of the story, this strange old man had a fight with the cashier in the supermarket, because the supermarket stipulated that only two bouquets of flowers could be discounted, and he also wanted to enjoy the discount when he went to checkout with a bouquet of flowers. Although it is not going well, the day has to pass. But according to Murphy's Law, life can still take a turn for the worse. Ove, who worked in the factory until the age of 59, was fired. Going back to this community that I have done my best to maintain, people should drive their cars and walk their dogs. No friends, no relatives, and I can only drink my wife's grave and complain twice a day. Ove lost confidence in everything around him and decided to go there to see his wife.
Ove committed suicide in a variety of ways. Every suicide is a retrospective of memories, but his suicide plan is always interrupted again and again. Ove passively accepts everything around him: repairing radiators for his neighbors; helping the neighbors take care of their children; even adopting stray cats. The appearance of the female neighbor's family gradually warmed his heart. He taught her to drive and told her stories about his youth. When life was getting full of sunshine, a fly in a white shirt kept buzzing in Ove's ear, telling him to give up the management of the community, with fierce words. Living when you're desperate is always full of surprises. Once chatting with a female neighbor about a trip before their child was born, they had a car accident that cost them their child and made their wives never stand. stand up. Time turned into quicksand in the hourglass, neither speeding up nor slowing down, and Ove, the paranoid and stubborn old man, gradually became easy-going. The fly in the white shirt came to find fault again, but was caught by the female reporter who came to interview Ove. Facing a pile of evidence that could lead to prison, he fled. At this time, the sun shines into Ove's life in the largest area, just like the heat of summer and the warmth of winter. However, after reconciling with the hatred, Ove fell into the community that he cared for his whole life...
The story is over, in the face of loneliness, should we choose death or try to live? Faced with the retention of life after failure, we must also learn to retain love and create love. May you be full of warmth after being gray.
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