Keigo Higashino's "Secret" is regarded by some as a romance novel, some as an ethical novel, and some as a suspense and mystery novel. But as the title of the book "Secret" implies, until the end, it is always impossible to guess the deeper things, and the paper-thin residual thoughts are torn at the end.
Keigo Higashino's "Secret"
The biggest significance of this book is that reading it from a man's point of view and reading it from a woman's point of view feels completely different. Therefore, this article understands the meaning from the perspective of men and women.
● Woman's perspective: Life is back to 11 years old
● Man's perspective: Loving her has become a kind of shackle
(1) Synopsis of the story
For ease of understanding, it is necessary to give a brief explanation of the story of this book.
The man's happy and peaceful life was destroyed at the age of 39, his wife (36 years old) was in a car accident on the way home with her daughter in the fifth grade of primary school, the wife was unfortunately seriously injured, and the daughter was miraculously unharmed, but she has been unconscious.
Misfortune happens
At the moment of the death of his wife in the hospital, the daughter miraculously woke up, but the daughter who woke up had her wife's soul in her body. Other words:
What dies is the wife's body, and the soul is alive;
What is alive is the daughter's body, and the soul is dead.
(2) Woman's perspective: Returning to the life of 11 years old
After returning to his wife of 11 years old, after gradually adapting to this strange event, she decided to make good use of and cherish the opportunity to start again. Her previous regrets now have the opportunity to make up for it, and her previous ideals now have a chance to be realized, and she has decided not to live up to the young body that her daughter gave her.
endeavor
So she decided to study hard, after all, although she is now 36 years old, she is in the body of an 11-year-old who is in elementary school.
Taking it for granted, she understands and learns from an adult perspective, step-by-step to achieve her goals, the best junior high school, high school, and her future goals.
The man asked her why she was working so hard, and she returned: "As long as there is an exception for many things, there will be a second and a third time." The same is true of failure, failure once, will continue to fail. "Her previous life was unsuccessful, and she didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, so that deep regret, experienced once, even if it was death, did not want to experience a second time."
And for the attitude of life, the heroine who has come back in life has also undergone great changes: there are many beautiful things in this world, such as the ability to feel happy without spending too much money, or changing the world view, which are easy to do, but they have not been discovered before.
Her passion for life is like a raging fire, burning.
(3) Man's perspective: Loving her has become a kind of shackle
But for the male protagonist, the entanglement and pain have just begun: it is the wife and the daughter, the daughter but the wife.
He felt that they had not lost, but he felt that they had all been lost.
Especially when the daughter with a wife grows up day by day and exudes a youthful atmosphere, what role should he face her?
If in the beginning, he loved her wife, no matter what the future holds, he will play the role of husband and father.
But now, his love for his wife has clearly become a shackle, a kind of kidnapping for her reborn future.
Shackles and freedom
His attitude towards the future is entangled and confused.
Our lives are too short to accept another lover and create another life;
But it is long enough to hide the memories of the past and start a new look.
Therefore, after all kinds of pain and attempts, she and he both chose to sacrifice in different ways, carrying their own "Secrets".
It's just that she sacrificed the past, he sacrificed the future.
Life can be as bright and warm as day, and it can be as cold and desperate as night.
Maybe to truly love someone is to live in a way that makes him or her happy!