Text/Yellow Peach
The novel Anna Karenina writes that Tori goes to the manor to visit Anna, and the two go to see Anna's daughter together. This visit allows Tao Li to discover that Anna is indifferent to her daughter. The writer describes the luxurious scene of the nursery from Tao Li's point of view:
There are strollers ordered from the UK, there are toddler cars, there are sofas like marbles for babies to crawl, there are rocking chairs, there are new special baths, everything is British goods. It's durable and valuable. The room was tall and spacious with good light.
From this description, it can be seen that little Anna has very high material living conditions. This shows that children are highly valued and cherished by their families. Love her, give her the best. This is the psychological behavior of the vast majority of parents.
Anna's daughter also looks very cute in Tao Li's eyes:
----------------- She saw the stranger's unhappy look, but it made Tao Li very fond of it. ——The way the little girl crawls, she (Tao Li) also likes it. This little girl put on a dress tied behind her back and was put on the carpet, looking very cute. She was like a small animal, looking at the adults with her big dark shiny eyes, obviously happy that people admired her, smiling and squinting, stretching out her feet, supporting her small body with her hands, and then quickly contracting her legs, and climbing forward with great force.
The child's appearance is cute, his appearance is cute, and even his crawling movements are cute. Tao Li watched, while admiring the child's healthy appearance, while comparing the girl with her own child in her heart, feeling that her child was not as strong as her, not as good as her climbing.
Tao Li is a child-centered person, her life content is almost around the child, her psychology at the moment is the psychology of a mother. She quickly saw a strange situation in the eyes of a mother: this lovely child, Anna did not like.
There were many people who took care of the girl, maids, nurses and nannies, but there was very little contact between Anna, the nurses, the nannies and the babies; Anna, as a mother, rarely entered the nursery, and she wanted to find a toy for the child, but could not find it. When Torree asked the child how many teeth she had, Anna was also wrong —she had no idea that the child had recently developed two teeth.
Anna, who even made a mistake, realized her dereliction of duty, and she explained to Tao Li: "Sometimes I feel like a superfluous person here. This is not the case with having a first child. As if unwilling to stay in the nursery for long, Anna lifted the hem of her skirt and walked past the toys and supplies and quickly left.
From Tao Li's point of view, Anna's words and deeds do not fit into the identity of a mother. However, judging from the plot earlier in the novel, Anna is not a cold mother.
Anna was full of maternal love for her son Sheliocha, and would miss him for a few days; in the days with Vronsky, she also thought of her son, and took the risk of visiting her son, often secretly weeping and sad because she could not see her son.
Anna is also very fond of Taoli's children, and can say the date of birth of each child, what illness they have had, and play games with them, which is deeply loved by the children.
It is said that little Anna is beautiful and cute, the crystallization of Anna and Vronsky's love, anna should love this child very much. However, she is not familiar with the child's situation and rarely goes to the nursery, which shows that Anna does not ask much about her daughter and does not like her very much. Why?
I think, first of all, the presence of her daughter reminds Anna of her situation.
Anna was a married woman who fell in love with Vronsky and did not meet moral standards and legal requirements.
When Little Anna was born, Anna had puerperal fever and was on the verge of death. At this time, she and Karenin did not divorce. Thus, despite the care of the child by a nurse, a nanny and a nurse, Karenin took on the responsibility of caring for the child. Later, Karenin refused Anna's divorce request, and Anna has always been saddled with the reputation of "debauchery" and "shamelessness", and has been rejected by high society.
Because she was not divorced, Little Anna was nominally Karenin's daughter, and her surname was Karenin. What a funny and cold thing it is.
Seeing her daughter, Anna could not fail to think of her last name, and the thought of her last name would make Anna think of her own embarrassing situation.
Vronsky cared deeply about his daughter, and he wanted Anna to divorce Karenin so that she could marry him and give her a legitimate identity and a surname with him. And divorce is even more difficult for Anna than ascending to heaven. Because Karenin refused to divorce, one of his purposes was to punish Anna, make her miserable, and make her feel humiliated.
So, as long as she faces her daughter, Anna has to think about her own situation. Just like she squints her eyes when she talks about the future, she thinks less about her situation when she sees her daughter. This is actually a bit of a self-deception.
Secondly, the presence of her daughter reminds Anna of her son, Xie Liaocha.
The son is the spiritual pillar of Anna's hypocritical married life. She poured out the maternal love she could give to her son, Xie Liaocha, who loved him dearly and thought of taking him away from Karenin alone.
Karenin knew that Anna did not want her son, so he used his son as an excuse, saying that even if he divorced, he would never let his son follow her.
Anna, a mother, could not have a son, and even the right to visit her was denied by Karenin. And her feelings for her son were not understood by Vronsky, which made her extremely miserable and therefore angry with Vronsky.
Therefore, in the face of her daughter, Anna should think of her son Xie Liaocha. Her daughter evoked her thoughts of Xie Liaocha, which made her miserable.
In this way, the daughter is the crystallization of love and the shameful mark of love. It's not that Anna doesn't like her daughter, but she's afraid to face her daughter, afraid to face the pain that's hidden inside.