Snow in Midsummer 448-450 [12-15-2011]

Today I read pages 448 - 450 of Snow in Midsummer. Donkey goes to the doctor to get poison so he can kill Mrs. Cai. The reason is because if Mrs. Cai is dead social and economic necessity will force Dou E to accept Donkey as her husband. Which, as of right now, Dou E is completely against. The doctor gives Donkey the poison because Donkey threatened to take the doctor to court after seeing him try to murder Mrs. Cai unless he gives him the poison. Dou E recites a monologue talking about how a lot of women just want a husband and don't want to work. She also talks about how the women start living through their husbands as they gossip about their adventures that their significant others had taken. Dou E also told the story of Meng Jiang-nu. Meng's husband died while building the great wall and she went to the wall to find her missing husband. Apparently she cried so hard that part of the wall collapsed revealing his dead body. Dou E was trying to compare woman who were so loyal to their husband to the woman currently. "How shameful that women today are so unfaithful-" The women today become widows and worry about finding a new husband while the woman she praises became widows and remained faithful to their husband that had died.

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