Wang Wenxuan is a weak intellectual image who is under the pressure of life and mentally tortured in the old society, a kind and upright, loyal and honest but cowardly and incompetent little clerk, with a dual character:
On the one hand, the cold world, hard life and heavy work have twisted him into an unusually cowardly person, unable to cope with the heavy life and unable to unravel the contradictions between the two women who love him. Wang Wenxuan was originally a graduate of the Department of Education of a certain education university in Shanghai, and the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War shattered his ideals. At home, I was in the middle of a dispute between my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that could not be resolved. His old and humble personality became a reason for his wife's departure, and he finally died of poverty and illness.
On the other hand, as an intellectual, Wang Wenxuan still did not lose his kindness and integrity, was dissatisfied with the dark reality of the time, sympathized with those who were more unfortunate than himself, loved his wife, mother and children, and often blamed himself for not being able to make them happy. The change of his personality is not the original logic of the development of human nature, it is the evil old society and old system that forces people to live at the same time, but also gradually erodes their hearts, making normal human nature distorted, and finally becoming a victim.