Even a bustling metropolis like New York has its back. It seemed to be a place forgotten by the sun, dark, damp, with a decadent smell that emanated from it. The Red Brick Block on the Lower West Side is one such place.
A melancholy and tired young man came here and asked to rent a room. He was received by the 12th landlady. It was a fat woman as greedy as a big meat worm. The young man did not choose to follow in, followed by a magical description of the author, the dilapidated room, the broken furniture inside, like a vicious devil waiting for his arrival.
Young people come here in search of their lover, and this is where the homeless wanderers who have no place to live for a moment. It's more like a caravanserai to hell or heaven, where it's a test of fate that's unknown.
Maybe many people enter the abyss of more pain from here, and maybe some people go out of here to phoenix nirvana rebirth, after all, this is the settlement of jugglers and actors.
When the youth did not get the answer he wanted from the landlord's mouth, he was decadently reclining on the chair, in order to find the beloved girl, he had been running for 5 months, every alternation of hope and disappointment, it was like a pair of big hands rubbing his heart, he felt as if he no longer had the strength to look for and accept another disappointment.
At this time, a strange wooden incense wafted over, and he couldn't help but feel a jolt. This is the characteristic breath of a beloved, who frantically searches every corner of the house. But there was no trace of her dripping, asked the landlord again, again denied.
This time it was really desperate, the magical scent was gone, the young man committed suicide by gassing it in despair, and while he waited for death to come, O'Henry used the word "gladly." At this time, he may be more comfortable to die than to live.
The sadness and joy of the little people at the bottom of society, O'Henry can always handy. At the end, the landlady showed off a conversation with a friend, and it was directly stated that the girl the young man was looking for died in the same room 7 days ago. The same is suicide with gas.
The landlady's pride is that she cleverly deceived the youth, successfully rented out a murderous house, and made money. The selfishness of human nature The dark side of greed fits the darkness of this neighborhood, which is not at all like the yang.
After five months of continuous searching without any information, I went here and knocked on the doors of 12 houses, only to find and rent this room, but there was still no information about the girl, and it was so desperate that I didn't have the strength to look up. But the scent of the wooden tree raised hope for the last time, until the hope was finally shattered. Young people have to die. Despair hit him like a wave after a wave. Until he was completely knocked down.
He may be poor and lose his love, but when there is hope, he can still live. But once people feel desperate about their lives, there is really only one way to die.
O'Henry's exception in this novel does not leave hope. In a dark, ugly, heartless world, there is no room for the next living person. Either leave or die here. Maggot-like dehumanized species like the landlady may not be worthy of being called human.
If young people get up and open the door and go out, will they have a different life?