Keigo Higashino once said in "The Strange People":
It seems that a person who has fallen once seems to have lost the right to return to the right path.
When Hirstwood elopes with Carrie and steals $10,000 in cash from Hanna-Hogg's bar, it means that he has completely broken with his previous life and will never be able to reunite.
Leave Chicago for the larger city of New York. Surrounded by her lover who is willing to give up everything, Carrie, in front of her is the loving life of warblers and swallows, and the dying Hearstwood has the honor to enjoy the bloody youth of young people again. Everything is what the future can be expected to look forward to.
But life is not only happiness, it is always accompanied by corresponding setbacks. When Hirstwood enjoys the love of young people, he also bears the pressure of young people running around and making money to support their families.
When he first came to New York, he was carrying more than 1,000 yuan, and Hurstwood did not intend to start from the most basic work and start from scratch. He opted for risky, high-yielding investments and partnered with others to open bars.
Initially, the bar business did not pick up significantly. However, the married life with Carrie is enough to dispel the frustration at work. Carrie prepares meals every day and waits at home for Hearstwood's return, and the two eat together and talk. Life in New York is also a joy.
Just like the husband and wife in the world, after getting along for a long time, the fresh energy comes, and what comes with it is endless bickering, quarreling, and cold war. Hurstwood's business is improving and his income is slowly increasing, but his married life with Carrie is not as loving as before. From the first time I didn't go home to eat at night, I felt guilty, and now I don't go home at all and spend the night directly outside. Unconsciously, the two were getting farther and farther apart.
The unhappiness between the husband and wife did not affect Hurstwood's life, after all, it was also like this before. What affected him was the change of environment, which brought him strong discomfort.
New York is home to millionaires, multimillionaires, and is home to Hearstwood's intoxicating high society. Now his status is even higher, from bar manager to bar owner.
It stands to reason that Hurstwood's involvement in high society was much easier. The truth is that his property and his status are not ranked at all in the starry New York Sea. The people who came to his bar were not the crowds of Hanna-Hogg bars, not rich or expensive, but a group of unknown people.
In "walled" New York, neither is the Hurstwood fart. The more so, the more Hurstwood nostalgic he became of his former life, the more he neglected to manage the bar with his own wealth.
Unfortunately, even if I look down on this bar anymore, it is the only way to survive in New York, and it has gone bankrupt under its own management.
Losing his only source of income, the dying Hearstwood had to look for a new job. He placed his honor on the mingtai and refused to defile it.
He didn't have enough money to participate in the extravagant bars, and he couldn't look at the cold bars. He wants to find a bar that meets his noble status to join the stock, continue to be a partner, and look forward to the day of a comeback. In fact, the fact is that his pocket is only more than 700 yuan now, and he is eager to pay the rent of 28 yuan, and he is willing to pay it after rubbing for a while. Even so, he still refused to let go of his honor.
The truth is often cruel, he does not have enough money to buy shares, nor does the bar willing to hire him for more than half a hundred years. When Hurstwood tried to find another way out after many tribulations, he found that he seemed to have only worked as a bar manager in his life, wanting to get involved in other industries, with neither experience nor energy.
At the end, it was a dead end.
At this time, the snubbed Carrie finally waited for the return of Hurstwood, but no longer looked forward to this love.
Career and love have both lost Hurstwood, and only the honor remains.
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