文档介绍：Half-Life Fate
--written by Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang
Born Name:Zhang ying (张瑛)
Pen Name: Liang Jing (梁京)
Born: Shanghai
Died: Sep. 8. 1995 US
Writing period: 1932-1995
Half-Life Fate is one of her most famous novels and it has influenced a lot of people. The story is set in Shanghai, during the 1930s. It is mainly about two lovers, Gu Manzhen and Shen Shijun, and tells a tragic and beautiful love story.
半生缘-半生怨
College graduate
Character:friendly strong
She is considered to be the most perfect woman character in Eileen’s many novels.
她是圆圆的脸,圆中见方──也不是方,只是有轮廓就是了。蓬松的头发,很随便地披在肩上。世钧判断一个女人的容貌以及体态衣着,本来是没有分析性的,他只是笼统地觉得她很好。
Gu Manzhen 顾曼桢
Shen Shijun 沈世均
intern engineer
Character: kind honest ---
the reason why Manzhen falls in love with him.
But he always feels unconfident and suspicious.
The former part of the novel describes a beautiful and delicate love between Shijun and Manzhen.
The former part
raped and locked up by her elder sister’s husband
seprate from each other
the love watered down and finally disappeared
The latter part
14 years later, e across with each other. Sadly, everything has changed, and they all know that in face of fate, they ar