The Lin Family Shop

The work mainly centers on a small store called "Lin's Shop" in the countryside near Shanghai, and shows the social situation at that time through the story of the survival of Lin's store under the social turbulence, and through the story of Lin's store, the owner of the Lin's Shop, who struggles to run the store in the hope of improving the situation of profit and loss, and finally has to go bankrupt and run away. By telling the story of Mr. Lin's shop and his efforts to run the shop to improve the profit and loss situation, and finally having to go bankrupt and run away, the story shows the survival of a small businessman under the turbulent society, and also shows the status quo of the countryside at that time.

First of all, analyzing from the economic point of view, the loss situation of Lin's store was largely due to the national goods movement that broke out in Shanghai, which led to a large amount of hoarding and stagnation of the goods of Lin's store, which made a living by selling eastern and western goods, due to the boycott of eastern and western goods by the people. In addition, due to the imperialist export of capital and commodities to China, a large number of foreign commodities flooded into the domestic market, the impact of the original natural economy of the domestic countryside, accelerating the disintegration of the natural economy, leading to a large number of farmers to bankruptcy, so that the purchasing power of the countryside declined, which is the important reason why the Lin's store was unable to turn the loss into a profit.

Secondly, analyzing from the class structure, one of the most important reasons for the bankruptcy of Lin's store is that it was subjected to the pressure of the local Chamber of Commerce president and other bureaucrats, when the boss received the notice of not being able to sell foreign goods, he wanted to get through the joints, and it is not difficult to see from his words that similar situations have occurred in the past. Later, when Mr. Lin was arrested at the party headquarters, he was pressurized and had to post a large amount of bail before he could be released, and when Mr. Lin tried to improve his business by selling at a reduced price, the president of the Chamber of Commerce hinted that he should get through to the police commissioner, saying that he might be jealous of Mr. Lin's business. From these incidents, we can see that Boss Lin not only had to face the impact of foreign capital, but also the oppression of the bureaucrats at the grassroots level of the Kuomintang. At the same time, from the bureaucratic oppression of Lin's store, it can be deduced that the bureaucratic class in the social class at that time oppressed and exploited the toiling masses and small businessmen, which further showed the darkness of the society.

Finally, some typical women's images have been portrayed in the Lin family store, such as Mingxiu, the daughter of the Lin boss, who is a young person who accepts new ideas, accepts new things, and at the same time is easily influenced by others for fear of being blamed by others, and thus begins to worry about her future situation when she is blamed for wearing foreign goods to school; and her mother, Lin Da Niang, who is a typical woman at the end of the feudal society, is subordinate to her own image. Her mother, Lin Da Niang, is a typical woman in the late feudal society, obeying her husband and caring for her daughter, but she lacks initiative, and when her husband is arrested and sent to the Party Department, she needs to rely on Shousheng, a store assistant, to make decisions. In the novel also portrayed some of the feudal village women image, such as Zhu San A Mrs., Zhang widow, these two are the image of the feudal women, Zhu San A Mrs. and Zhang widow will be their own deposits in the Lin boss store, but when the Lin family store after the bankruptcy of the two were hit hard, Zhang widow is in the Party Department of the gate of the conflict in the loss of their son and thus went crazy.