Zhang ailing's blockade: the feelings of middle-aged people can't escape the reality after all.

Blockade is a short story by Zhang Ailing. Based on the war-torn old Shanghai in the early 1940s, it describes a scene of ordinary life in a closed tram car.

The beginning of the story is written like this:

It was in this section of the train that Lv Zongzhen, 35, and Wu Cuiyuan, 25, originally met like parallel tram tracks because of the temporary "blockade".

He is a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, and an accountant working in a bank. He is an honest man, earnest, obedient and even unsmiling. On the blocked tram, he sat alone in the corner, eating steamed bread and secretly complaining that his wife was too concerned about life and not considerate enough for him.

She is a young unmarried woman who works as an English teaching assistant in a university. She is faint and ambiguous. She is a good daughter at home, a good student at school and a conscientious teacher now. She thinks there are more good people in the world than real people. She is unhappy.

In order to avoid relatives he didn't like, Lv Zongzhen took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Wu Cuiyuan. A pair of strange men and women talked, approached, felt and warmed up in a special moment and space under blockade, and talked about a short-lived love. This is a boring intersection, but I didn't expect the chemical reaction of hormones to make them talk about everything, from family, work, life to marriage, and even to the point of talking about marriage.

The tram blockade was lifted and people moved normally. Wu Cuiyuan thought that the man had gone, but after a dream, Lv Zongzhen was still sitting in his original position, and he became the "good man" again. And their memories can only stay in memory, but they can't go to reality.

A love originated from chance encounter, short and dreamy, has ended before it officially started. At this moment, the love shattered by reality is like an absurd drama with an endless ending; It's like having an unreasonable dream and waking up in a desolate place.

In middle-aged world, love is a luxury.

In the world of middle-aged people, it is right for others to say that they love you, and it is your fault if you believe it. Lu Zong's emotional infidelity flooded in and even blurted out to her, "I won't divorce, but I plan to get married again." Wu Cuiyuan's attitude towards Lv Zongzhen gradually changed from coping, caution and resistance to closeness and dependence. She even cried for each other's hopeless love, imagining that if she married someone else in the future, she would never be so "cute" as Zong Zhen. She was deeply immersed in the illusion of love he gave her. However, when the tram started again, Zong Zhen's sudden behavior of avoiding suspicion undoubtedly gave her a loud slap. The final realistic ending of extramarital affairs is not the reality of the other party, but the naive party doesn't know how to see the reality clearly.

When people reach middle age, their feelings will be too helpless, too weak, even weak, busy with life, fighting for their careers and taking care of the young and old. How many people can still concentrate on managing their feelings? Therefore, the world of middle-aged people can't say love, love is a luxury, and middle-aged people don't deserve love.

For normal couples, love is interpreted as affection that is not affection. You hold my hand as you hold my right hand with your left hand. Like a lamp without oil, there is no spark and no echo. It's not that anyone changed his mind, but that love finally lost to time, to reality and to life.

The love of middle-aged people is not only a kind of life, but also a kind of responsibility.

The world of middle-aged people cannot collapse, because there are parents to be filial and children to be educated; As soon as I open my eyes, I am surrounded by people who want to rely on themselves, but there is no one to rely on. Therefore, the soul of middle-aged people is lonely and helpless. However, when people reach middle age, material things, feelings and children can't guarantee the happiness of marriage, or even the happiness of marriage. What can guarantee the survival and happiness of marriage is actually only responsibility.

This reminds me of Francesca, the housewife in The Bridges of Madison County. Four days after her family left, she met Robert Kincaid, a photographer from National Geographic magazine. Francesca lost herself in the daily necessities of marriage, because she met Robert, and Robert satisfied all her desires for love. They spent four wonderful days together, and then Robert wanted to take Francesca with him, but Francesca refused. Because there is her husband here, her children here, and her damn responsibility, she can only stay, and she must stay.

Middle-aged people, don't talk about love, because you don't deserve it ...