Anyone who is familiar with the great English writer Mao Mu knows that his fetters of life, the moon and sixpence, the blade and pleasure are the most representative works. How to say Mao Mu's characteristic is that he really listens to both refined and popular tastes and is easy to understand. His style is advocating naturalism rather than criticism, not dualism of good and evil, and respecting human nature. In addition to the above works, without exception, another novel about him, The Veil, also represents the author's style.

The story of the novel mainly takes place in a place called Meitan House in China, Hongkong and China. Katie, the heroine, was forced to go to Meitan House, where cholera was rampant, after her husband Walter (a bacteriologist) found out that she had committed adultery with Charlie Tang Sheng, assistant to the chief secretary. Finally, Walter died of illness and Katie returned to Hong Kong. At first, she felt ashamed after rejoining Charlie, but she lost her husband and mother. Finally, Katie returned to England to reconcile with her father and went to live in the Bahamas with her father.

First of all, the structure of the story is very story-like, which pushes the story to a climax from the beginning. In the form of flashback and interpolation, the author has written the contradictions and stories of the novel perfectly, with striking skills. For example, from the beginning, I talked about the details of Katie's adultery with Charlie Tang Sheng. It also shapes the spiritual emptiness; She longs for love, but she loves vanity. Then the author explained in detail why Kitty cheated. She is a selfish rich woman who once lived in vanity fair in London. She looks beautiful. However, due to the delay in getting married, she was forced to get married by her bitter mother, and the pressure of her sister's marriage also made her own marriage with Walter hasty.

In the previous part, it is worth mentioning that Katie described her mother. For example, in the seventh chapter, she is described as a controlling, mean and ambitious woman, stingy and stupid. This indicates Katie's love tragedy. In the shaping of Katie, it is said that she agreed to Walter's proposal under the tragic proposal. And because she appreciates his indifference and calmness. In addition, I said "I will regret myself if I get married before the age of twenty-one", and figuratively pointed out that the tragic love of the heroine laid the groundwork for the follow-up. Such remarks are also in line with the infinite opposition of modern and contemporary leftover women, and there is the voice of the woman.

Later, it was mentioned that the hero and heroine went to live in Hong Kong after marriage. Walter was a bacteriologist who was taciturn, taciturn and lacked interest in life. At the same time, it also shows that he is a gentleman, with clear love and hate, great wisdom and vision, and a great ambition for society. When it comes to their married life in Hong Kong, Mao Mu's pursuit of story-telling works naturally limits the description of Hong Kong in the novel, only talking about dissolute places such as clubs and tennis courts. After all, unlike other writers, Mao Mu pursues the plot beauty of character development. Instead, I wrote about the versatility of Charlie Tang Sheng.

Another climax is about the dispute between the hero and heroine before they prepare to go to Meitan House. This puts forward the image of love rat Charlie Tang Sheng, which naturally reflects that Katie will embark on the road of Meitan Mansion and begin the process of self-redemption. Among them, there is a description of Meitan House in the fog, such as fog.

Here, the story develops to the description of the protagonist suffering from cholera, highlighting the harm of cholera. The setting of such a trip to Meitan House reflects the superb writing style of the author's novel, which is reflected in the fact that the reason why the hero and heroine go to Meitan House is a pun, and on the one hand, it reflects the great spirit of the hero's dedication to science. On the other hand, I naturally explained that going to Meitan House is a road of self-salvation and self-growth for Kitty to hone herself and make Kitty fall in love with the hero again.

In this novel, as the author also said, Dante's trip to Meitan Mansion is the spiritual pillar of this novel. Because the heroine showed great love for her dead husband in the pain of bereavement. In this process, she also got the help of her friend Wildington, so that the heroine can re-recognize and pursue life as soon as possible. Here, I have to say that Weddington, who plays the role of a mentor, is content to play his instrumental part with orchestral music, that is to say, he is an example of self-pursuit. China's Taoist thought also influenced the heroine and got strong spiritual support. In addition, it is worth noting that during the trip to Meitan House, the author also let the heroine know the existence of the Chinese chastity memorial arch, and the author also used the vivid oriental female role of Widdington's wife to illustrate that Widdington's wife is similar to the worship of the splendid civilization of Bodhisattva, which is naturally a good character for the heroine to learn love, responsibility and loyalty.

Finally, the author thinks that the beauty of the novel is that the hero Walter said "the dog is dead" before he died. We know that this sentence comes from Goethe's elegy: Goethe wrote an elegy about a man who kindly adopted a dog, and then the dog went crazy and bit people, causing people and dogs to turn against each other. Here, we all think that the original sin of dogs biting people crazy is that people don't care about their dogs, and people should be the biggest original sin, but in the end the dogs died. The author's metaphor here is to express that the original sin of the affair between Katie and Charlie Tang Sheng should be Charlie Tang Sheng. The victims were Katie and Walter. As a result, good Walter died. Here, I said all the sighs of life, and then I was helpless and angry. But people are living, so the heroine who is pregnant with the hero's child is more fatherly and continues to live in the strange and energetic Bahamas. The last road to the Bahamas, which passes through the phoenix nirvana in Meitan County, will surely lead Katie and her husband's children, who represent hope, to peace and tranquility.

In China's concept of good and evil, this way of dealing with novels is quite out of the reader's appetite, because Charlie Tang Sheng should die the most, but he didn't die, and he spent the rest of his life triumphantly. It is inevitable that this is the shortcoming of this novel, but I think this novel is the best response for the author to borrow Walter's words "The dog died" before his death.

The so-called significance of taking the veil as the title of the book is actually that the author shows that their love path is the real mystery of loyalty, love and responsibility, self-reflection and self-awareness growth in love through Katie and Walter's tragic love story. Katie, struggling in the whirlpool of love, betrayal and death, experienced disillusionment and life-and-death parting, and finally gradually unveiled the veil of life from her eyes and embarked on the road of spiritual growth without regrets.