Inseparable From The "Mother"

Eileen Chang is a high-profile and controversial female writer in the history of Chineseliterature. Her life is legendary life. Eileen Chang took the life with the sad tone, strange image,and unique experience, and left the world with many good novels. Her unique style, skillful use oflanguage skills and dripping extreme psychological analysis, created many images of womendeeply, especially the image of mother.Eileen Chang never preach abstract the great maternal love in the novels, on the contrary, theimage of mother in her novels, such as Mrs Bai of "love in a fallen city","half life fate", Mrs Gu,although there is no lack of child care, but the love is not unconditional, but mixed with a lot ofselfish consider, so at the critical moment will sell children’s lifelong happiness. Cao Qiqiao of"The golden cangue" is an extreme example, she even can be applied to her children spiritslaughtered to fulfil her own money possessive.In Eileen Chang’s novels, the relation between person and person, especially the relationshipbetween women, interactive relationship under tension, not only is so mother-in-law, sister-in-law,even the relationship between the sisters and mother and daughter, also is with fire and waterpotential. In Eileen Chang’s view the emotion is the most unreliable things, parents and children ofthis family, sisters feelings between close friends is like that, let alone the unrelated men andwomen love. In the novels of Eileen Chang, no one is not feeling in a disastrous state.The life experience and literary creation of Eileen Chang is largely influenced by her motherHuang Yifan. Before Eileen Chang was seventeen years old, she has always been in a "romantic"love to love her "distant and mysterious" mother. Before Eileen Chang was twenty years old, hermother Huang Yifan was always not at home, even though Huang Yifan was born in an officialfamily, but she is very different from Eileen Chang’s father Zhang Tingzhong’s old style, in theeyes of Eileen Chang, the mother is a representative of the fresh air of freedom. However, thisromantic love eventually destroyed by the trivial and unbearable daily life, live with her mother letthat alienation is a good mother and daughter feeling cast a shadow, also influenced the literatureof Eileen Chang. In Eileen Chang’s novels, almost can not find a mother of truly meet the ethics,they are or selfish, or weak, or vicious, Showing the characteristics of dark, twisted, they are sick.Contact her autobiographical works and essays, the traumatic emotional memory in her life wascaused by her own mother Huang Yifan. She never get rid of the impact of her mother.