Reflections on The Grand Hotel

Because this series is all about an industry in the form of novels, I read it easily and got a general understanding of what the hotel industry was like in the era when the author wrote this book.

The author classifies the chapters with the dimension of time, and the whole story spans five days, from Monday to Friday; Each section of each chapter tells the story line of different characters.

The background is a very distinctive hotel, but the internal management is riddled with holes. It tells the story of employees, bosses, investors who want to buy this hotel, and customers.

Recently, there was a news that the waiter in Guangzhou restaurant stole wine at the wedding banquet. I was curious about what the waiter would do after pouring the wine into the empty pot and taking it away. Just to drink it for yourself, or to sell it back in a new bottle? I found the answer in this book:

In the hotel kitchen, something similar will exist:

I also found this series of books, in which the author will describe the background of social discrimination, that is, gender discrimination in Violent Medicine and racial discrimination in this book. There is a story about a black dentist who was invited to attend a meeting and stayed in this hotel, but because of the staff's mistake, he didn't know he was black and his reservation was confirmed. The teacher was indignant when the black dentist was refused a hotel room. Finally, the teacher's proposal was rejected, so Mr. Black resigned.

Obviously, the law has promulgated a bill on racial discrimination, but people still hold prejudice against race. Even if time is extended to the present, the United States has a black president, but racial prejudice still exists.

In this novel, I was particularly impressed by a passage:

This is a truth. People yearn for things that are strategically located, magnificent and modern, but once they watch them too much, they want to return to the original, start to be nostalgic and start to admire different things. The problem is that sometimes, when you want to go back, you can only find that it is a memory. The city has been built into high-rise buildings and main roads, and there are big shopping malls, bungalows, hutongs, old streets and small shops with characteristics in the past. This is a warning. We cannot blindly pursue modernization and luxury. These things bring convenience as well as cold. Novelty does not mean good. Even buildings can have feelings. Maybe it's gone by accident.