The first paragraph introduces our baby. Even after we knew his character, we were told that there were two women in his life. Obviously, they are symbols of ideal forms: white roses (chaste women) and red roses (passionate women). At the next moment, the author thinks it is necessary to make a critical comment:

A chaste widow's dedication to her husband is spotless and passionate. Isn't that what most people remember about her? -255 pages

In the next paragraph, when the narrator says, "Maybe everyone has had two such women, at least two", the hypothesis of pure and charming desire, passionate women may make western readers feel strange. Remember, when writing this story (1940), China has just become a * * * republic. Traditional values still dominate. Comparison between classic images (such as Li Bai's poems) and secular and negative images (such as blood mosquitoes);

Marry a red rose, and she will eventually smear mosquito blood on the wall, while the white rose is still "the bright thread at the foot of my bed". Marry a white rose, and soon, she will stick a glutinous rice in your clothes; That red one, at that time, in your heart, marked the crimson beauty. -255 pages

Classic images are like cultural relics of another era. The wife is through the eyes of a married man, and some people hate it. No matter whether a passionate woman is a chaste woman or not, once she becomes a wife, she hopes to keep romance in his heart. On the other hand, in every case, the mistress is ideal. This is not part of a pure hypocritical person. There is an indirect interdependence between these descriptions: his mistress's romantic memory is like curry spice, which masks the potential carrion and he wants to avoid tasting it.