小说是一面镜子，不仅反映现实，还映照其中隐藏的裂痕。

饥饿了就想吃饭，寒冷了就想温暖，疲劳了就想休息，爱好利益而厌恶祸害，这是人生下来就具有的本性。

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.