Camel Xiangzi tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in the old town of Beiping, China. Xiangzi came from the countryside, and the declining countryside made him unable to survive. He came to this city, eager to create a new life with his honest work. He tried all kinds of jobs and finally chose a rickshaw. This career choice shows that although Xiangzi left the land, his way of thinking is still the way of thinking of farmers. He is used to individual labor, and he is also eager to have a car as reliable as land. Buy a car and be an independent worker. "This is his wish, hope and even religion." The city seems to have given Xiangzi a chance to realize his wish. Struggled for three years, bought a car, and was robbed in less than half a year. But Xiangzi still refused to give up his car dream. Although he doubted his pursuit and wavered several times, he kept pulling himself together and struggling again. It should be said that Xiangzi's tenacious character and stubborn attitude struggle with life, which constitutes the main plot content of the novel. The end of the struggle ended in Xiangzi's failure, and he finally failed to realize his dream of owning his own car. The realistic profundity of this novel lies in that it not only describes Xiangzi's material life deprived by the harsh living environment, but also describes Xiangzi's spiritual degeneration after his life ideal is destroyed. "He has no heart. His heart has been taken away." In this way, a hardworking and kind-hearted rural youth was transformed into a walking dead unemployed. Xiangzi's tragedy is the product of his social life environment. By describing the characters and interpersonal relationships around Xiangzi, the novel truly shows the life of that dark society, the ugly faces of warlords, spies and car factory owners, and the distorted reflection of the oppression and oppressed relationship of Xiangzi by their ruling network. The novel does not avoid the instinctive desire and a little attachment between Xiangzi and Tigress, but at the same time it profoundly describes that even this kind of love between men and women is based on the relationship between money and interests, so Tigress should always keep the money in her own hands. "The money is in her own hands, and the power is on her own." The combination of Tigress and Xiangzi undoubtedly aggravated Xiangzi's tragedy.
Camel Xiangzi truly depicts the tragic fate of a rickshaw driver in Beijing. Xiangzi came from the countryside and worked hard to make money. He worked hard for three years and traded his sweat for a rickshaw. But before long, the mutinous soldiers of the warlord took his car away; Then the detective of the reactionary government cheated him of his only savings, and the master evaded the spy's tracking, which made him lose a relatively stable job. Faced with one blow after another, he struggled and still stubbornly wanted to make greater efforts to realize his life dream. But everything was in vain: I bought a car with Tigress's savings and soon had to sell it to arrange Tigress's funeral. His wish was finally completely dashed. His favorite happy suicide blew out the last spark of hope in his heart, and he lost any desire and confidence in life. He changed from aggressiveness to self-indulgence: Xiangzi, who had been upright and kind, was crushed by the millstone of life. Xiangzi is kind and simple, loves labor, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. He has always been very strong and struggling. He is unwilling to listen to Gao Ma's words to lend usury, to covet 60 cars in Si Liu, and to listen to Tigress's words to do small business, all of which show that he thinks that "you can have everything if you have your own car" and doesn't want to climb up. What he dreams of is to seek an independent life by his own labor. The work describes that after Cao Zhai knocked away his hard-earned money, the detective was most concerned about Mr. Cao's entrustment, because Mr. Cao was a good man in his view; He also described his concern for the grandparents of the old horse and pony, showing his kindness and integrity. The reason why his tragedy can arouse readers' strong sympathy is that besides his social status and unfair experience, these personality characteristics have also played an indelible role. Hard-working and strong people like this have finally become first-class "thorns" and embarked on the road of depravity, which clearly exposed the sin of unreasonable society corrupting people's hearts. The work writes: "The laziness of the bitter people is the natural result of hard work and failure, and the tricks of the bitter people contain some axioms." He added, "Man has improved himself from wild animals, but so far, he has driven his own kind into wild animals. Xiangzi is still in the city of culture, but he has become an animal. It's not his own fault at all. " It is from this understanding that Lao She wrote this tragedy with deep sympathy for those who were insulted and damaged. This makes this work have the power of angry accusation and strong critical spirit, which is deeply branded in the readers' hearts. The novel also describes in detail Xiangzi's efforts to realize his life wishes. As an unconscious individual worker, although he has an urgent need to improve his living conditions, he doesn't know what is the right way to liberate himself. He never thought that everyone should unite and struggle, but stubbornly fantasized about achieving this goal with personal strength and efforts. His life ideal is narrow, and his means of struggle is even more wrong. Cause me to stay away from my friends, lonely and helpless, and even more unable to resist repeated blows. Since "buy your own car? This has become the whole motivation of his struggle, so that his only purpose in life is. Then after he gradually realized that he could not meet such requirements, he lost not only an ideal, but the whole meaning of life, which would inevitably lead to mental breakdown. Blind personal struggle doomed his failure from the beginning, just like the metaphor in the works, as if pulling a rickshaw to cut corners, "strayed into luoquan Hutong, went for a spin, and returned to its original place". This aggravated his misfortune and gave people a heavy sense of suffocation. The end of the novel clearly points out that Xiangzi is "the last ghost of individualism"; Deep regret includes criticism. The whole work accuses the old society of cannibalism, and at the same time declares the bankruptcy of trying to liberate one's own road through personal struggle. This has more profound social significance than ordinary works that expose dark reality. Through the mouth of an old coachman who has experienced vicissitudes of life, the work points out meaningfully: "It is difficult to be alone. What can a person jump? Have you ever seen a grasshopper? I jump far by myself, but I can't even fly if I am caught by a child and tied with a thread. Fight into a ball, fight into a formation, hum, and eat up the crops in the whole area in a moment. No one can cure it! "Although this formulation is relatively simple, there is no further positive expression in his works with specific plots, but it can still be seen that this is a brand-new conclusion drawn by Lao She's exploration of the road of liberation of working people, which shows his valuable progress that he did not have in his previous works.