In the first 20 minutes, I saw a lonely male protagonist, and loneliness runs through the whole chapter, threading the needle for the storyline.
Oil, capitalists, land... The original sin of capitalism also exposes the ugliest side of people - greed and ignorance. Greedily sell the land, greedily disguise themselves as religious, and greedily envy others; ignorant believers are still convinced and unrepentant in the face of liar priests.
The male protagonist is an oil merchant, and he is also one of the ugliest crowd. Daniel obtained land by cheating (paying quail money) and stealing (the last part is honest to those who do not want to sell the land secretly), oil extraction is also a medicine sacrifice the lives of workers, abandoning his adopted son, and finally going to Mexico to establish his own business in the face of his adopted son , jealous and angry to the point of yelling. This is how capitalism develops with ugliness.
Loneliness is Daniel's personality trait, which is innate and is also the attitude of the main creator - facing ugly loneliness to the end. Daniel has to face ugly people every day, which makes him more and more lonely. Facing Mobil's firm non-cooperation is a manifestation of loneliness. After Daniel shot his substitute brother, he confessed a lie in the church. Facing the departure of his adopted son, he felt jealous and angry. Both redemptions ended in ugliness. Yu was ugly and Yu was lonely. Loneliness is getting more and more uncontrollable.
In the end, Daniel faced the ugly preacher (this is criticizing the hypocritical side of religion, but it is not the ugliest) and chose to reject God. The antichrist is the ugliest face in the world. At this time, Daniel completed His ultimate goal—he became loneliness itself.
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