Appreciation of middle-aged works

Through a tragic story that an ordinary middle-aged female doctor almost died in the long-term overload operation, Man to Middle Age boldly revealed the social reality at that time: the contradiction between the value and contribution of intellectuals and the disproportionate social treatment, sharply criticized the "Left-leaning" thought's indifference and discrimination against intellectuals, and strongly called for respect for talents and knowledge.

Lu Wenting has been an ophthalmologist for 18 years since he came to the eye hospital as a resident in 1960s. She is not an attending doctor, not party member, and has no post, right, reputation or status. But in her weak heart, she is full of deep love for the motherland and people and a sense of responsibility for patients. However, instead of being properly protected and cherished, she was ignored, often given a cold shoulder, despised politically and criticized at work. When she reached middle age, she "had a heavy business burden outside and a heavy housework burden inside;" We have to support our parents in the world and raise our children in the next, and we are in a difficult situation of "overload operation" because both husband and wife are technical backbones of the unit, and she has little time to cook and take care of the children. Jia Jia, the youngest daughter, is ill in the nursery, and she is still busy taking her daughter home after work. It's time for her son Yuanyuan to go to school, but she didn't have lunch. She had to let him go to school while eating sesame cakes. She also took her son's hard cold biscuits to the hospital to do work and entrusted her daughter to her kind neighbor, Aunt Chen. A family of four crowded into a room of 12 square meters, and the family surrounded the wall. "No sofa, no wardrobe, no new tables and chairs", and even no new bedding, life is very cold. The whole family shares a table. Lu Wenting can't sit at the table and study business before his son finishes his homework. She performed a relatively simple cataract extraction operation for Minister Jiao. Under the recommendation of hospital leaders, she was still questioned by Qin Bo, the patient's family. Later, she was forced to interrupt her busy outpatient work and accept Qin Bo's "questioning" about the operation. When Lu Wenting had a sudden myocardial infarction, her husband Fu Jiajie called the hospital where she worked, hoping to send a car for first aid, but was kicked back and forth by several departments. Finally, he had to rush to the middle of the road to stop the car. Finally, a truck driver who had never met before enthusiastically helped him take his wife to the hospital.

The seriousness of the problem of intellectuals is also reflected in Lu Wenting's good friend Jiang Yafen and his wife. Jiang Yafen and his wife were discriminated against because of their poor family, which caused great depression and pain to their spirit. I studied business, but I was maligned for no reason. They love their motherland and medical care, but they still go abroad in tears. Jiang Yafen and his wife's going abroad, on the other hand, gave the society a serious warning: if the situation of intellectuals is not improved as soon as possible, it will lead to brain drain. Characteristic description

Chen Rong's Lu Wenting is a pioneering artistic model in the history of contemporary literature in China. Instead of artificially setting touching important events and sharp conflicts, the author puts the protagonist in ordinary life and daily entanglements, in the contradiction between individuals and collectives, family and career, and shows extraordinary characters in the ordinary. The most striking feature of Lu Wenting's image lies in the strong contrast between her noble character and extremely hard places, as well as her gentle and quiet appearance and self-denial dedication. The image of Lu Wenting sums up the common experience of middle-aged intellectuals, which contains rich ideological and social connotations and has high aesthetic value.

Qin Bo is another typical figure successfully created by the author in his novels. Although not much is written, it is vividly portrayed. The author created a typical "Marxist-Leninist old lady" through euphemism, indirect temptation, pleasant threat and the ruthlessness of revolutionary rhetoric. In his works, Qin Bo first appeared in the spacious and bright dean's office, where "there are no messy footsteps, noisy voices and crying of small patients". Although Qin Bo is full of Marxism-Leninism, he is actually addicted to the self-esteem of power, has a natural distrust of intellectuals represented by Lu Wenting, and refuses to give people a fair evaluation. In preparation for Minister Jiao's operation, her conversation with Dean Zhao and Minister Jiao appropriately showed her inner world. Although President Zhao has repeatedly assured that she is the backbone of her business and Minister Jiao herself has expressed respect for the opinions of the hospital, she is still obsessed with Dr. Lu's professional title, political status and physical condition. In her opinion, it is irresponsible to let an ordinary doctor operate on the minister. When Dean Zhao introduced her favorite famous doctor to move to another place and inherit a small grocery store, all she wanted was to strengthen ideological education and completely ignored the plight of intellectuals. When she learned that she had saved Minister Jiao, she condescendingly accused President Zhao of not cherishing talents, and talked about "middle-aged cadres are our backbone and my comrades, so we should cherish talents". When she visited Lu Wenting, she was still preaching to the seriously ill patient.

structural characteristics/property

According to the development of characters' activities, "Middle-aged Man" breaks the traditional writing method of time and spatial order structure stories, and tries to use the stream of consciousness writing method, adopting the narrative structure of the past and the present, not only writing the real situation in front of the characters, but also writing their memories, associations, imagination and hallucinations, centering on the psychological consciousness activities of the characters, laying out the plot, unfolding the picture, expressing the personality and shaping the characters. At present, this spatio-temporal structure is based on the rescue of acute myocardial infarction in Lu Wenting. In the past, the structure of time and space was a longitudinal description of Lu Wenting's life from the time he graduated from college at the age of 24 to the time he fell ill on his way home at the age of 42. The main actions and character development of the protagonist are all completed in the narrative of the past time and space. The first half of Time and Space shows the fragments of life printed in everyone's mind through the dim illusion of the protagonist, the perspective of Dr. Sun, the director of ophthalmology, President Zhao of the hospital and his good friend Jiang Yafen. The second half focuses on Lu Wenting's development from fatigue to fracture under "overload operation", focusing on three operations.

In addition to the plot structure, the novel also has an implicit or explicit lyric structure, that is, petofi's love poem "I would like to be a torrent ..." runs through the whole novel. This poem appears three times in the novel. The first appearance was when Lu Wenting fell in love with her husband Fu Jiajie, full of youthful passion and yearning for life; The second time, Lu Wenting learned that Jiang Yafen, a friend for many years, decided to emigrate overseas, revealing the melancholy of the passing of his youth and lamenting his life. The third time, when Lu Wenting looked dull and indifferent to the outside world after being rescued, Fu Jiajie cried. He wants to call back his youth life and can't let his lover leave him. The three appearances of this poem are touching each time, which not only expresses the thoughts and feelings of the characters well, but also adds beautiful melody to the work and creates a poetic atmosphere.