The Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Essays -- Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese seamstress is a marvelous novel, written by Dai Sijie, which himself was re-educated mingled with 1971 and 1974 during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In Dai Sijies Balzac and the Little Seamstress three separate accounts are given of an incident in which Luo and the Little Seamstress pay off love in an isolated mountain pool. Two of these perspectives are given by the participants while the third is provided by the old miller who observes their love qualification from a distance. Of all the accounts, I found the count of this incident of Little Seamstress most likeable as she is qualified to present at an grotesque description of this setting and allow the readers to understand her thoughts and emotional stateings. In contrast the account of the Old Miller is more detached and is more focused about the personal beauty of the Little Seamstress, while Luos story to me is more focused on his own concerns and is desire to escape the remote mountai n village which he has been sent.The Old Millers perspective conveys the sense that he is both transfixed by what he sees, but he feel shamed for being unable to take his eyes off the lovers. Their acrobatic movements in the water make him feel his age in the fact that he realizes he corporation never again enjoy such pleasures. What he focuses on is their nudity and their coupling. This is captured in the image of their bodies entwined, whirling round and round in the water. Feeling root to the spot he notices the limpid water glittering in the sun exaggerated and distorted their obscene movements. The millers account makes the reader feel like a voyeur and imagine the old man with his face reddened. He is overcome by the beauty of the Little Seamstress her naked paunch and un... ...h an injury on the Little Seamstresss finger. A turning point comes up when they get back to the village and finds out that his mothers been rushed to the hospital, which than he has to visit her f or a month.Out of the three stories told by Luo, the Old Miller and the Chinese Seamstress, I find the Little Chinese Seamstresss story more appealing than others. From my view, it shows a variety of meanings because overall, the Little Seamstress was not educated, but from this story I could tell that she gained knowledge and was able to use what she was capable of doing and you would not expect to gain feedback from a woman who just had relationship with a man. Luos story is also very appealing but it shows only concerns for himself and is own feelings. Whereas the Chinese Seamstress was more appealing and showed improvement of her ability to think independently.