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I. Analysis of the character Mrs. Tu in the story Wife Picker, sample 1 (Standard)
1. Introduction:
- Introduction of the author and the work
2. Body:
a. Overview of Mrs. Tu:
- An old, poor woman living in a resettlement area
- Walking slowly and ponderously, calculating as she goes, her life is one of hardship and struggle, typical of rural elderly women.
b. Mrs. Tu's emotional development:
- Surprise at seeing her son in disarray, anxious confusion about what might be wrong.
- Seeing the woman in the house, she becomes even more surprised and deeply troubled, 'strange...who is that?'
- After hearing Trang's explanation, she falls silent:
+ She feels sorry for her son for having to marry in such difficult times.
+ She feels regretful for being a mother and not being able to care for her son.
+ She understands and sympathizes with the poor woman, 'it's only when people are in dire straits that they come to their own children.'
+ She accepts the woman and is happy that her son has a wife, opening her heart to her new daughter-in-law.
- However, behind the joy is worry, pity, 'Knowing that they can feed each other through this famine?'
- Mrs. Tu is a loving mother and a compassionate woman.
- The next morning:
+ Mrs. Tu's 'bloated, gloomy face,' today 'light, fresh, different from usual,' 'radiant': she is happy, excited.
+ Despite the miserable meal, everyone eats well.
+ Mrs. Tu says 'all happy things, all happiness in the future': optimism, love for life, hope for the future, instilling in her children faith in the future.
c. Artistic techniques:
- Building a distinctive character
- Describing the character's psychology extremely reasonable, vivid
- Putting oneself into the character to describe
3. Closing:
- Mrs. Tu is a typical example of farmers before the August Revolution.
II. Analysis of the character Mrs. Tu in the story Wife Picker, sample 2 (Standard)
1. Introduction
- Introduction of the author, the work, and the character Mrs. Tu.
2. Body
a. Mrs. Tu's circumstances:
- Living amidst the terrible famine of 1944-1945.
- A widow, living with her son in a ramshackle house in the Ngụ Cư hamlet.
b. Mrs. Tu's emotions and the maternal beauty when Trang brings the new wife home:
- Surprise, disbelief when hearing her son introduce his new wife. => The experience, the ability to listen, share, is also a heart of trust, love of a mother who understands reason.
- After hearing Trang explain the whole strange marriage story, she suddenly 'understands so much'. She 'pities her son's fate', feels sorry for herself, her son, that emotional turmoil makes 'tears trickle down her cheeks'.
- Quickly getting out of the sadness in her heart, rekindling her spirit, accepting her son's fleeting marriage.
- She worries about whether 'they can support each other through this famine'.
c. Mrs. Tu's feelings when facing Thị and her deep compassion and tolerance:
- Understanding Thị's difficulties 'When people face such hardships, they often marry off their daughters. And it's only when they marry off their daughters that their sons can have wives.'
- Staring at Thị, it's a gaze of understanding, pity for a life of misery, sympathy for a woman who couldn't marry properly.
- Thinking that it's fortunate that Thị appeared, otherwise her son wouldn't have a wife, wouldn't have a family life in the countryside.
- Quickly becoming close to her new daughter-in-law, gently caring for Thị 'Sit down here, sit down to rest your feet,' to make Thị less hesitant in the new home.
- Seeing Thị's awkwardness, Mrs. Tu's heart is filled with pity, intimacy, explaining to Thị about the lack of a wedding feast, hoping Thị won't blame the poverty of her mother and son, but will love and nurture happiness with Trang.
- Whispering, confiding 'It's already so harmonious between you. This year is a big famine. Your marriage at this time is so compassionate,' it's the love of a mother for her son, daughter-in-law, the pity of a mother seeing her children's hardships.
c. Mrs. Tu's feelings the next morning and the beauty of strong belief, intense hope in life:
- Planting that belief, hope in the minds of her son and daughter-in-law with whispers of affection, 'You know, my child, who is rich in three generations, who is poor for three generations?'.
- Talking about good things in the future, like raising chickens for eggs, business ventures.
- Treating her children with a pot of 'khoán sweet soup.'
3. Closing:
Expressing general impressions.
III. Analysis of the character Mrs. Tu in the story Wife Picker, sample 3 (Standard)
1. Introduction
- General introduction of the author, the work
- Overview of the character Mrs. Tu's emotions in the short story Wife Picker
2. Body
a. Mrs. Tu's initial astonishment and surprise
- The beginning of the poor mother's emotional journey is surprise, astonishment with a series of questions: 'Who is the woman standing at the head of my son's bed like that?', 'Who is it? why did she greet me with a bow?'.
- Mrs. Tu goes from one surprise to another, to the point of 'no longer believing her eyes or ears', 'The old lady blinked her eyes to prevent them from watering because suddenly she felt her eyes were watering'
b. After understanding the situation, Mrs. Tu feels pity, sadness, and worry for her son and the 'picked wife'
- After understanding the situation, the old lady 'bowed her head in silence' in pity, sadness for her son.
- She feels sorry, feels guilty for not being able to arrange a proper marriage for her son.
- She empathizes with the fate of the 'picked wife', accepts and embraces Thị with human love.
- The mother cannot hide her worries: 'Knowing that they can support each other through this famine?'
c. Mrs. Tu instills hope and optimism in her children
- Faced with the terrible devastation of famine, the mother only knows how to advise Tràng and his wife to protect and love each other to overcome together.
- In hunger, in hardship, we can still see Mrs. Tu's joy, hope for a brighter tomorrow: 'Then fortunately...who is rich in three generations, who is poor for three generations...'.
- The morning after Tràng got married, Mrs. Tu was happy working 'repairing and cleaning the house and garden'.
+ The mother's mood becomes lighter, fresher than usual, 'the bloated, gloomy face of the old lady suddenly brightened'.
+ She got up very early, she 'neatly tidied up, swept the house, pulled out the tufts of grass growing wildly in the garden'.
+ The mother tries to spread the flame of hope through stories about the future.
3. Conclusion
Overview of the significance of the character Mrs. Tu.
IV. Analysis of the character Mrs. Tu in the story Wife Picker, sample 4 (Standard)
1. Introduction
- Introduce the general features of the author Kim Lân (characteristics of the person, life, creative career, artistic style,...)
- Introduce the general features of the short story 'The Picked Wife' (circumstances of its creation, origin of the work, notable features of its content and art,...)
- Introduce the issue to be analyzed: The character Mrs. Tứ's emotions in the short story 'The Picked Wife'
2. Body
a. Introduce the general features of the character Mrs. Tứ
- Although not appearing much in the work like the character Tràng, Mrs. Tứ still leaves many impressions on the reader.
- The appearance of the character Mrs. Tứ appears truly impoverished, haggard, and miserable: 'her figure was sluggish', 'she walked slowly, murmuring calculations'
b. Development of Mrs. Tứ's emotions
- When returning home and seeing Tràng and the picked wife at home, Mrs. Tứ is extremely surprised, with a series of questions arising in her mind.
→ Mrs. Tứ doesn't understand, doesn't know who the woman is, not because she doesn't understand but because she is surprised, incredulous, and cannot believe that her son has a wife during the horrific famine.
- The old lady understood and she understood much more:
+ She believed that Tràng had a wife
+ She felt sorry for her son, for the picked wife, and for herself.
+ She cried, she cried for her son, for worrying about him, and perhaps those were tears of joy, happiness when her son had a wife.
+ She opened her heart to welcome the new daughter-in-law
→ Mrs. Tứ is not only rich in love for her son but also rich in love for humanity.
- The next morning:
+ Her face brightened, it was 'lighter, fresher than usual'.
→ That face of hers radiated so much joy, excitement, and happiness.
+ During breakfast that morning, though really lacking, she only talked about 'happy things, joyful things' in the future.
→ Those stories, along with joy, and hope creeping into her mind, were lighting up Tràng's and the picked wife's hearts with optimism, love for life
3. Conclusion
Summarize the outstanding features of the character Mrs. Tứ in the short story 'The Picked Wife' and state your own thoughts.
V. Outline Analyzing the Character's Emotions of Mrs. Tứ in the Short Story 'The Picked Wife,' Model 5 (Standard)
1. Introduction
Introduction to the short story 'The Picked Wife' and the character Mrs. Tứ
2. Body
*Background:
- Widow, living with son in poverty
- Son is unattractive, listless
- Once thought someone like her son would never get a wife
*When Tràng brings Thị home:
- Surprised, didn't know who she was
- Shocked when Tràng explained
- Joyful, sorrowful when understanding everything
- Pitying the hardships
- Willingly accepting, loving both Tràng and Thị, pitying herself as a mother who couldn't care for her son.
*Morning on the first day Thị came as daughter-in-law:
- Woke up early to weed the garden, tidy up the house
- Cooked a pot of rice porridge to invite her daughter-in-law with love, respect
- Tried to create happiness, talked about good things in the future
*Image of Mrs. Tứ:
- A woman who has suffered many misfortunes, disadvantages
- A mother rich in love
- A humane person, supporting others in their own misery
- A person longing for happiness, warmth, and fullness
3. Conclusion
Reflections on the character Mrs. Tứ.
VI. Sample Essay Analysis of the character Mrs. Tứ in the short story The Adopted Wife (Standard)
Kim Lân is one of the writers specialized in writing about farmers. His stories are always simple and straightforward, just like his own image. 'The Adopted Wife' is a work set in the famine years of 1945, containing deep compassion for the poor clinging to each other in the midst of death. And shining in that scene of hunger is the love of people for each other. The image of Mrs. Tứ - the poor old mother along with her emotions, her complex feelings when witnessing her only son 'adopting a wife' has left a deep impression on readers.
