What are the aspects of Lao Wang's misfortune?

He is materially difficult and mentally miserable. Because it is a single family, it is unorganized and has great fear in thought. This may be Lao Wang's greatest misfortune. Lao Wang is a kind person. He is willing to send ice cubes to the author's house, and the fare is halved; Mr. Qian is free to see a doctor, but he is not at ease when he gets the money. He is worried that people don't have enough money to see a doctor.

Appreciation of works:

Lao Wang is a real humble man who lives by labor. His true and simple nature always gives him a different kind of admiration for knowledgeable people. Such admiration is not utilitarian, but from the heart. So, when Lao Wang died, he gave Jiang Yang eggs and sesame oil that he could not bear to eat.

However, his painstaking efforts were finally misunderstood by Jiang Yang. "He went downstairs straight at his feet", and that "footsteps" sounded another "unfortunate" feeling to Lao Wang. If Lao Wang's past "misfortunes" are all explicit, then the "misfortunes" that Lao Wang stepped on this time are implicit.

The key is that Lao Wang misinterpreted Jiang Yang's sympathy for him as affection with his simple way of thinking. He sincerely did everything he thought he should do, but he didn't really realize that he and Jiang Yang's family came from different classes after all, and the distance between them was obvious.

Although the encounter from the sky gave him a chance to communicate with Jiang Yang "at close range", this kind of communication can only stay in the superficial exchange of things and money, far from spiritual communication. No matter how hard he tries, the distance between his hearts can't be shortened.

Edited on April 2022-12.