See how Maugham lifted the veil on marriage

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In Maugham's pen, the book "The Veil" tells the story of the young girl Katie from covetous vanity to soul awakening, forced to marry hastily under the pressure of the world before marriage, cheating after marriage, hurting others and hurting herself.

The first part is "sinking": the elderly leftover woman, the flash marriage cheating, from the emptiness of the soul to the degeneration of behavior, the sinking path of a beautiful young woman.

The second part is "Awakening": because the lover betrays her husband, but is betrayed by her lover; how does Katie unveil love and marriage step by step because her husband retaliates deep into the uncertain place of life and death?

The third part is "Metamorphosis": going deep into the center of cholera, seeing the preciousness of life, And Katie completes the self-redemption of the soul.

This book seems to be about love and marriage, but it unveils the reality that looms under the veil, revealing the truth of a series of lives such as betrayal, revenge, regret, and death.

For Katie, seeing the true face of her lover Charlie and re-acquainting her husband Walter is a process of unveiling the "veil".

She uncovers the shells hidden in the sugarcoating of Charlie's sweet words, sees the truth of love that she has always believed in, and reveals the true heart hidden under Walter's taciturn skin.

Although she still doesn't love Walter, she admires him and finally sees his goodness.

But it was too late to save it, and Walter's death deeply touched Katie's wandering heart.

Maugham's pen is fierce enough, he does not like the veil under the "half-covered face of the pipa", he has to peel back the cocoon, the bloody reality of the analysis to show people. This reality is sharp and straightforward, and there is no room for self-deception.

After Walter died of cholera, Katie said goodbye to Hong Kong and returned home, she wanted to have a girl, raise her, make her an independent, free person, and not make the mistakes she had made.

After the dust settled, Katie finally ushered in the transformation and finally unveiled the veil of life:

To choose your own life independently, freely and carefully, not to be lost in temptation, not to indulge in the past, even if you stumble, you must also strive to move forward and find inner peace.

As the abbot once said to Katie, "Peace is not to be found in work, it is not in joy, nor in this world or in this monastery, it exists only in the soul of man." ”