杜拉斯情人英文读后感

Be My Lover Be My Love

I can never forget The Lover since I first met her. She was written by Marguerite Duras, who is one of my favorite writers. Duras was described as a mysterious woman when people mentioned her. She was born in Vietnam, and came back to France when she was 18. The experience when living in Asian and the different Eastern culture all gave her an unforgettable impression.

The Lover was written when Duras in her seventies. It is said by all the people that this one is more like an autobiography. People always say Duras understand desire, and expound love. The Lover was the last time Duras yelled at the lost time and life. After reading this, you may have a better understanding about desire and love.

The Lover tells a story about a teenaged girl and a middle aged man. In the story, they both have no name. The man never called the girl, and so did the girl, she just described him as Chinamen. The man came from China, and he has a rich but traditional family. The girl is French, but she was born in Vietnam. Her mother was just like thousands of French, who were cheated by the France government to settle in Vietnam. They met each other on the board of a ship when crossing the Mekong River. The man came forward to the girl just wanna talk to her. At that time, the man was attracted by the girl all by sex desire. The girl looked at him, and accepted his invitation to go with him on the way back to her school. Certainly she didn’t love the guy, and she did that because of the money.

Later, she became the man’s lover. She often came to the man’s house making love with him. They made love every day, seemed never tired. Time after time, they tried to convince themselves that there is only desire of sex and money between them, nothing else. But one day, when they were making love again, the man told the girl” Go with me. I want to take you away. Go with me!” But the girl says” No, I can’t. I’m too young. I can’t leave my mother and my little brother.” The story was doomed to be a tragedy from then on.

Afterwards, the man’s family forces him to married a rich woman who he had never seen before, or they would cut the financial support to the man. The man compromised, coz he can’t live with their support. Although he had tried to ask the girl to go with him, but that was destined could n’t work. Even though the girl can finally leave her family, the man can not support they two, coz he has no money and no job.

In the end, the man married another woman. On that day, the girl sat on a bridge watching the wedding parade. The world seemed all happy but definitely there’s no joy in their heart.

Also on the board of a ship, but this time the ship was sailed to France. The girl was on board without the man. She would leave Vietnam and back to France with her mother. When the ship began to sail, she saw a familiar black car in a corner. She knew it was him.

The night on board was very silence, just like the day she met the Chinamen. The girl was standing on the deck. The moon looks a little sorrow. There floated some music from far way. Suddenly, the girl burst into cry, she memorized once upon a time, and she fell in love with a man, who she called him Chinamen.