Comparing The Tall Woman And Her Short Husband

Every place has a light side and a dark side. Both “Poor Fish” and “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” revealed the darkness of the society, and occupied more dark than than the opposite side. In the "Poor Fish", the narrator was first full of inferioty, however when he met Ida, they fell in love with each other. They got humiliated in public when they tried to against with people who laughed at them. The “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” talks about a couple, people surround them tried to take advantages of the couples, but was overcomed by them. Comparing the book "Poor Fish" and "The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband", both Moravia and Feng Ji-Cai criticized the darkness of the society.
The Cultural Revolution happened during 1966-1977. People in China were followed the great leader, Mao Tse-tung, who stated that everyone should be exactly equal. “In 1966, disasters struck China, great changes came into the lives of all the residents in Unity mansions, which was like a microcosm of the whole country” (Feng 488). In order to achieve Mao Tse-tung’s goal, people used violence to weaken the landowners in any possible reasons “Why does
“What concerns us here though is chiefly Moravia’s preoccupation in the story collection Italian Tales with one’s physical attractiveness or unattractiveness, and in relation to one’s social status, one’s chances in love and even in relation to luck” (McKibbin). Moreover, back in 20 th century in Italy, people were incapable of love because they were still following the old traditions. “It was around 20th. century in Italy, people in the middle class are moral aridity, the hypocrisy of contemporary life, and the substantial incapability of people finding happiness in traditional ways such as love and marriage” (Clear). However, people like narrator in Italy did not care about traditions, and they were the groups which know about the true