Loneliness Slowly Ferments in the Hustle and Bustle - Jack London, Martin Eden

"Martin Eden" tells the story of a man named Martin Eden, a sailor of humble origins, who by chance meets Ruth, a high-society lady, and falls deeply in love with her. Martin's self-pity, coupled with the ridicule and cold eyes of others, prompted him to study hard, wanted to be a "civilized person" like Ruth, and finally had a strong desire to create and embarked on the road of literary creation.

But the magazine's editors disagreed with his work and repeatedly turned it away. And his beloved girl Ruth also poured cold water on him, sneering at him, and finally Martin and Ruth broke up due to different class concepts and huge differences in life concepts.

As if God had not fallen asleep, when Ruth and Martin broke up, the god of luck began to care for Martin again, his work was suddenly welcomed by the magazine, publishers also rushed to publish his work, some editors also asked him for manuscripts, and later editors did not line up, even the manuscripts he had been repeatedly returned before had to leave.

The leading figures of high society take the initiative to befriend him, and Ruth, the girl who broke up with him before, wants to renew her love and is willing to commit herself to him. But now Martin saw through the sophistication of people, the world was cold, and his thoughts about life were gray, and he finally committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea.

The work ends with a brilliant entry into immortality, not only because death itself is ultimate, but also because of the depiction of incomparable despair.

This despair is embedded between life and death, and points out that death is not painful, and the final pain also stems from life. This left a very vivid impression on me, and when I read the last chapter, it seemed that I was the one who was constantly desperate and self-absorbed.

Writers often encounter their own fate in their own works in advance, and Martin Eden is almost Jack London. Jack London's life was bumpy and legendary. I've been a sailor and a pirate; I've been a wanderer and a gold digger; I've been a journalist and I've been a farmer... He did a lot of work, including a tired dock stevedorer.

Jack London had little education, came from a poor family, embarked on the path of literature, and finally wrote many works, and he also committed suicide at the age of 40 because he was desperate about life and life. Enthusiasm and despair go hand in hand, writing the true meaning of life and the meaning of life. The fact that the writer who wrote such an exhilarating work ended up choosing to commit suicide is a lament and at the same time a futile sigh.

Compared with ordinary people, writers are more focused on people's hearts, the pursuit of ideals, the pursuit of the meaning of life are more intense, and they are more sensitive and demanding to the real world. So the blankness of dreams and the absence of ideals are fatal, and once the other shore is lost, without the summoning and guidance of the lighthouse, sailors in the dark can easily sink into the raging sea of death.

The world he lit up because of literature was finally extinguished by literature.