In "A Dream of Red Mansions", a large group of young women live in the Grand View Garden, forming a relatively closed daughter country. The dozens of young women described by the author are not only beautiful and intelligent, but also people with thoughts, feelings, wills, extraordinary "actions, actions and insights" and independent personalities. The author deliberately asked an outstanding man in the book to sing such a passionate ode as "The beauty of mountains, rivers, sun and moon is only for daughters." However, "A Dream of Red Mansions" is both an ode to women and a tragedy for women. It is these outstanding women that the author praised so much, but they have become characters in the book "Unfortunate Life" who are destined to have no happy ending. The author uses their tragic tears to brew a mellow and sweet artistic wine. This is what the book says "A thousand reds in a cave (crying), a thousand beauties in the same cup (sadness)."
Among the many women in "A Dream of Red Mansions", the author has created the most beautiful one, and she is also a character that the author strongly praises. She is the character in the book One of the protagonists is Lin Daiyu. She and Jia Baoyu constitute two distinctive characters in "A Dream of Red Mansions". They are both unprecedented people, and their actions are incompatible in the eyes of secular people. Just like Lin Daiyu, who is not a "serious master", in the eyes of ordinary people, she is an "aloof and self-proclaimed person with no ambition to live in the world", and is very unpopular in the Jia family. The cheerful Shi Xiangyun once said in front of Baoyu that she was a "little-tempered person whose actions are annoying". Aunt Zhao, who had nothing to do with Lin Daiyu, also complained behind her back: "If it's that girl Lin, she won't even look at our mother...". The maid Xiaohong and Zhui'er were whispering in Didui Pavilion and fell into Baochai's "Escape Plan" scheme. She mistakenly thought that Lin Daiyu had heard it and was very nervous at that time. Xiaohong said: "That Miss Lin is also mean. , I have a delicate heart...", so he was dissatisfied with her. Lin Daiyu gradually lost favor even in front of Jia Mu, and finally, as she said in her poems such as "Ode to Buried Flowers" and "Wind and Rain in the Autumn Window", she fell into the trap of "Three hundred and sixty days a year, wind and frost" The painful situation of "the sword is pressing against each other".
Why did Lin Daiyu fall into such a difficult situation? This has to be analyzed from Lin Daiyu's character. The following is a detailed analysis of Lin Daiyu's character traits, causes of formation, and significance of the times.
1. Expression of Lin Daiyu’s rich character traits
(1) Among Lin Daiyu’s rich characters, the most prominent and most recognized one is the so-called "little temper", He speaks harshly and unforgivingly, and is picky about everything. In fact, these are all superficial phenomena. Behind her unpleasant personality such as "little temper" and sharp words, what is hidden is her very strong self-esteem. Persistent maintenance of her own self-esteem is the root of all her character. The core part of her character is to respect and maintain human dignity and not tolerate the slightest insult to personality and self-esteem.
When "Lin Daiyu left her father to go to Kyoto", she "pay attention to every step, always care, and refused to say another word or take an extra step for fear of being laughed at." It reflected her strong self-esteem. The reason why Lin Daiyu was like this was because she had "often heard her mother say that his grandmother's house was different from other families. The third-class servants he had seen recently had little money for food and clothing." , is already extraordinary, let alone his home now.” But now that he is in a situation where he is living under someone else's roof, he is not a "serious master", so he seems to be even more cautious, lest his self-esteem be damaged in front of everyone. It can be said that Lin Daiyu came to Jia's house with such a strong self-esteem. Understanding this, we will find that Lin Daiyu's things that people regard as "little temper" are all related to her. Closely related to a strong self-esteem. It is like a tightly stretched string, installed on the extremely sensitive Lin Daiyu. Whether intentional or not, as long as it is touched slightly, it will tremble strongly.
The seventh chapter writes about the Zhou Rui family sending palace flowers to the Jia family sisters for Aunt Xue. When they gave them to Lin Daiyu, Lin Daiyu was in Baoyu's room. The Zhou Rui family smiled and said: "Miss Lin, concubine Let me send you flowers to wear with the girl." Baoyu said, "What kind of flowers are they? Show them to me." But Lin Daiyu only looked at them and asked, "Should I give them to just one person, or should all the other girls have them?" What?" Zhou Rui's family said: "Everyone has it, these two belong to the girl." Lin Daiyu said with a sneer: "I know that others will not give me the rest if they don't choose." It turns out that what Lin Daiyu cares about is not the value of the palace flowers, but the attitude of others towards her in this matter. She does not think that the flowers sent are "fake flowers" or undesirable, but she does not want others to intentionally treat her. She put it at the end and gave the leftovers to her. Because this hurt her self-esteem too much. If she didn't understand this, she would really think that Lin Daiyu was too stingy towards people and things.
In Chapter 18, "Lin Daiyu accidentally cut the sachet bag to celebrate Yuanchun's return to the province to celebrate the Lantern Festival", it is written that Baoyu was so happy that he gave all the things he wore to the boys. After Lin Daiyu found out, she thought that the "purse" she gave him had also been taken away by the boys, so she said: "The purse I gave him was also given to them? You can't think about my things tomorrow!" After saying that, he went back to the room angrily and "took it over and twisted it" the sachet he was making for Baoyu.
Later, after Baoyu explained to her, he also knew that Baoyu kept the "purse" in his arms, but he was still angry. When Baoyu told her that he was not with her, she cried and said: "You don't have to be nice and evil with me." , if you want to be annoyed, just put down your hands, what the hell is that!" In the end, he couldn't help but ask Baoyu to apologize for his "good sister" and short "good sister". At first glance, Lin Daiyu seems to be really stingy, almost unreasonable, but if you analyze it carefully, you can see that behind her "little temper", it is her beautiful character that is covered up. Her strong self-esteem, which requires exclusive love, respect for people, and maintenance of human dignity, is a manifestation of this strong self-esteem.