Without any accident, "Dear Life" will be Alice Monroe's final work. It is still a short story with limited space. If you read it one by one according to the author's wishes, the first article, "Drifting to Japan", is good: the unknown poet Greta is tired of her husband, and wants to see if there is an affair at the writer's party. Monroe wrote it as a secret of a woman who has been watched by the sun, moon and stars for thousands of years, It was thrilling to be written by Monroe. Finally, Harris's appearance was like "listen to the next decomposition", and he couldn't help asking Monroe: What happened later?
The next few articles are a little dull.
Amundsen: It's certainly not a story of abandoning everything, but it's a woman teacher chased by doctors. In northern Canada, which is not much better than the wild mountains, it's very common for a male doctor and a female teacher to warm up together. Surprisingly, on the way to get married, the doctor repented. Why? Monroe didn't write. A seemingly uninteresting story, written by Monroe, is meaningful.
Leaving Maverick: It is a story of loss. Ray lost it for the first time, and Leah lost it repeatedly. Put the two lost people in one story. I'm afraid that many readers, like me, will think that what will happen between Lei and Leah, but nothing has happened, but it is disappointing to read.
Gravel: Because she was pregnant with Neil's child, her mother divorced her father and took Carol and me from the town to the trailer house in the suburbs. Because of the poor living environment, Carol drowned. Her mother didn't give birth to a child like Neil's father. Neil left. My mother had to work hard to support my brother and me. No one complains about life, but the five flavors are mixed.
Shelter: "I" saw the husband and wife life of my uncle and aunt. The aunt turned around her uncle, so she was disdained by my mother who was enthusiastic about public welfare. Interestingly, knowing that my uncle and his sister were at odds, my aunt looked for an opportunity to invite the violinist home and purposely let her brother and sister meet, so there was a very repressive but turbulent funeral at the end of Wen... Who is whose shelter? Monroe never gives straightforward answers, so the Shelter is interesting.
Pride: The two natural paragraphs at the beginning make me confused. What do you mean? Later I understood. Rabbit lip, it's ugly enough to sew it up. Why are you proud of it? Oneida, even if his family is very rich, it is in the past. He is so poor that he even sold his ancestral house. What are you proud of? Two people who clearly like each other, because they are proud of "some people have made all the mistakes... but nothing happened." They are close at hand and miss their whole life.
Collee: Collee, a rich woman, has become Howard's lover with a wife. In order to avoid the revelation of Lilian, a maid who may have reached the truth (now working elsewhere as a maid), Collee asks Howard to act as a errand runner (Collee is lame) and puts a sealing fee in the mailbox rented specifically for Lilian. Lilian died unexpectedly, and it was revealed that Howard had moved all the money Keli gave Lilian into his pocket. How will Colley meet her old lover again? Monroe was too lazy to write.
The writing is still Monroe style, with light clouds and light winds. However, in "Escape", the waves that emerge from the calm waves are gone. It's just the pulling of chicken feathers on the ground. It's like Monroe sorting out the materials when he is ready to collect the mountains, and he finds that the good ones have been used up, and the rest of the chicken ribs are used by skill.
Until "Train" appeared.
Although it was a slow train, Jackson jumped off the train that took him home and went far away from his hometown. This beginning went against Monroe's conventional writing without modification, and a big question mark was set at the beginning: Why didn't Jackson go home? Monroe, who did not believe in the suspense, decided to be suspicious this time. He did not hurry to tell us why Jackson did not go home, but let Jackson stand on the dilapidated farm of Bell, and started the longest mirror in "The Train" and even the whole "Dear Life", the serene picture of men working and women weaving. Just when we thought that Bell and Jackson would get together for a hundred years, Jackson took the opportunity to escape from the farm. No, more accurately, he escaped Bell and became the gatekeeper of an apartment in the city. It was here that Jackson's secret was solved. It turned out that he was a ED The patient, in order not to let the beloved girl Irene fall into the dilemma of choice, Jackson chose hard to stay away from home. However, did Jackson's choice when Irene was absent make Irene live a happy life from then on? Irene, who came to Jackson's apartment to act as the gatekeeper in order to find her runaway daughter, made Jackson realize sadly that it had backfired. When time passed and it was impossible to make up for the debt to his lover, even Alice Monroe, a master of short stories, seemed unable to describe the pain at this time. She let Jackson get on the train again—— A rare story of twists and turns for love in Monroe's novels. Some people said that they could not finish reading "Dear Life" because he did not have enough patience to wait for "Train" to appear. Although the two later chapters of "Train", "Lake View in Sight" and "Dolly", fell into depression again, the last part of this book, "Finale", because of its strong autobiographical color, made Monroe shy. As long as there was "Train" in "Dear Life", Can be ranked in the ranks of Alice Monroe's works without fear, which complements the title of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
