Not long after, she died of pneumonia, and a new worry was added to Lang Dan's painful life: lack of money. There is not a penny left. He decided to sell those fake jewels, but he was surprised to find that they were all real. He couldn't bear it, sold 200 thousand gold francs, and once had the habit of whoring. Finally, he married a decent wife, but he had a bad temper.
In my opinion, Long Dan's wife is really an important person in the article. Although the content describing her is only a quarter of the full text, the foreshadowing it has laid is all over the full text. Mo Bosang described Rondan's wife as a beloved figure, which made Rondan fall in love at first sight. This seems beautiful, but doesn't it mean that there are many other suitors? Just like the sentence that people who know her in the article keep repeating: the person who wants to marry her in the future is really blessed, and we can't find a better one.
In fact, she is a respectable person, and her shortcomings of loving the theatre and fake jewelry have completely exposed her dark side. Because she is already beautiful, why dress up again? This is the first sign of her vanity. She had an affair without telling her husband, but she was afraid that she would look poor, so she decorated herself with fake jewelry. But in the end, this is unnecessary. Because her husband found out that all the fakes she bought were real, and those were given to her by her extramarital lover. This is enough to prove her evil heart.
The second half of the article focuses on the description of Langdan. His mood changes are very complicated. At first, he really loved his wife so much that after her death, all his hair turned white within a month, and time never reduced his sadness. However, the hardships of life finally shook him, and finally he didn't even have a penny. He immediately decided to sell some of his wife's defective products. But when he learned that his wife was having an affair, a sense of shame made him blush, but even so, he finally fell for the money and sold all the jewels betrayed by his wife, even ignoring the ridicule of the clerk!
I think this is the power of money. It can completely change a person, although it may go through a long process, just like taking drugs. Even such a modest clerk can't resist its temptation after all. Since Lang Dan is a rich man, he also likes going to the theatre. He continued to marry a loyal wife, but he no longer needed such a wife. He finally knows how much people will enjoy once they have money.
Perhaps this is the meaning of the title "jewelry": fake jewelry can be real, and real jewelry can also become fake. People's hearts are fickle, friendship can't last long, family ties can't last long, and even loyal love can't last long. It's all about money. Money buys jewelry and abducts love; Jewelry buys money and takes away humanity. People hold money, but they are often the puppets of money. Perhaps Mo Bosang's Jewelry is to expose and criticize this incomplete human nature.