“Gao Laotou” is the pen of the French writer Balzac. It mainly tells the story of a wealthy old man who started his career as a flour merchant during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He poured all his love into his two daughters. They squeezed into the upper class, gave them a good education from an early age, and gave them 800,000 francs of dowry when they were married, but his two daughters lived in a slutty. When their father was rich, they made every effort to please and respect their father. For the dirty money behind the father. And when their father was ruthlessly “squeezed” by them, they wouldn’t ask. When Gao Laotou died, no one even visited him in the past. Even the funeral money was not willing to go out. He had to let the poor college students in the two apartments pay for themselves.
“In the period of the Great Revolution, he hoarded the plagues and made a fortune. In order to let the two daughters marry a good family, he gave each of the two daughters 800,000 francs, leaving only 10,000 francs. But after two years, the father was driven out of his home, and the poor old man had to rent a dilapidated apartment.” When I read this, my eyes could not help but red, the two daughters’ despicable psychological, hypocritical faces, nothing. The coldness of human nature is sore. Did they forget the father’s parenting? Did they forget that the father had only eaten a few slices of bread a day? The old man poured all his efforts into his daughter–to find the best tutors for them, and to find them with educated companion ladies… But in the end, the two sisters treated their own biological fathers so badly! Balzac exposes the despicable, hypocritical, and inhumanity of the two daughters with a spicy pen.
The most important thing to highlight is the naked money relationship between people in the capitalist world.
Many people have embarked on the society, can’t afford the intimidation of money and various interests, and have gone astray. The slaves who are willing to pay for money and interests, extortion and robbery are not all for money? What is the end of the game? It’s not that the whole day is fearful. If you hide in Tibet, you will eventually enter the dark cage and be subject to public opinion.
Nowadays, money in this society seems to be a versatile thing. Money can buy everything, the truth, the conscience, and all the slaves of money. What you buy is only superficial. But money can’t be bought, and poor people are stunned by money and fame. Humanity has long been annihilated, and the conscience has long been lost… Money is not the source of all evil. Only when you use it excessively, greedily, and selfishly, it is the source of all evil.
I can’t help but sigh the tragic experience of the old man from the bottom of my heart. Balzac, through his own life experience, through detailed description, portrays the naked money relationship between people in capitalist society, and draws a contemporary penis in Paris with a sharp pen–hidden hidden society. There are so many stories, it is the epitome of the Bourbon dynasty, the true portrayal of the capital class. After making people read, they can’t help but conceal their contemplation.
The book “The Old Man” made me really understand that having the power to gain benefits can only bring a moment of joy, not permanent. We should learn to dominate money instead of being dominated by money. And, before you do everything, ask your own conscience, because if you accidentally betray him, then the condemnation of conscience will make you not get a good end.
