In Van Gogh's mother's eyes, her son always had so many strange and unrealistic thoughts; in the eyes of her son, the mother was narrow-minded and indifferent, and he could not integrate into the life of his parents.
Van Gogh longed for a family, and his parents, wanting to redeem (depriving him of the freedom of choice), pushed him away again and again, leaving him in self-torture.
Theo may have been the driving force he has been holding on to, his brother married and had children and did not live with him makes him feel that he is losing his brother's love, he thinks that his brother's condition is getting worse and worse is caused by him, because he has always felt guilty about his brother's financial demands; He would argue with everyone.
The younger brother is getting married soon. Gauguin's departure and success dealt him a heavy blow, and he could not control himself by cutting off his ears, and was often trapped in a mental hospital thereafter, limiting his freedom to paint. Van Gogh's paintings are almost always his cries of pain, and the cause of his death is also confused by suicide or he kills. The younger brother was also mentally tortured by his brother's death...
This book has really been read for a long time, and many letters have an objective understanding of Van Gogh's life. The lonely Van Gogh, he was like a fish out of the water, the light of darkness had long made him feel old, his heart was fragmented, the thought of death was warm to him, and his heart was filled with passion, and the way death came was not important to him, perhaps to him