# Difficult questions By [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop) ยท 2022-10-21 --- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b00b6b5c1a12fefb685e972327dd8aaf03a7dfc53f6f31d2a5da88fb245e4ea4.png) In 1828, a young woman must be firm in mind to resist all the temptations of coldness, criticism and even great prizes. Unless she has the courage to kill and set fire to others, she can say to herself: Oh, but they can't even buy literature. Literature is open to everyone. I won't let you drive me out of this lawn, even if you are a supervisor. If you love to lock the library, just lock it, but don't try to shut my free mind into the door, insert the latch and lock it. However, no matter how much the impact of frustration and criticism on their creation - and I believe that this impact is very great - it is not worth mentioning when compared with another difficulty they (I think, it is still those novelists at the beginning of the nineteenth century) faced when they put their thoughts on the pen. Another difficulty is that when they pick up the pen, there is no tradition to follow behind them. Even if there is, it is useless because it is too short and incomplete. Because if we are women, we can only think about the past through our mothers. No matter how much fun we get from the great male writers, it is useless to ask them for help. Lamb, Brown, Thackeray, Newman, Stern, Dickens, De Quincy - whoever he is - have not yet helped women, although she may have learned a few tricks from them and put them to use in her books. The lightness, heaviness, slowness and urgency in a man's heart are quite different from those in her heart, so she can hardly learn anything from them. It is a long way from drawing a tiger according to a dog. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/420b088cd709995bf166e94c5bb49e8bb9d68def4aac39a57b50650dd5906661.png) The first thing she discovered when writing was that there was probably no ready-made words for her to use. All the great novelists, such as Thackeray, Dickens and Balzac, wrote naturally, fluently without carelessness, expressive without affectation, distinctive and shared by the public. Their novels use sentences that are popular today. The popular sentence at the beginning of the 19th century sounded like this: "The greatness of their works lies in that their arguments never give up halfway, but are bound to go on to the end. There is nothing more exciting and satisfying for them than to practice art and constantly create truth and beauty. Success urges people to make progress, while habits help people to succeed." This is a man's sentence. Behind it, we saw Johnson, Gibbon and others. This kind of sentence is not suitable for women. Charlotte Bronte, despite her excellent prose talent, with such a clumsy weapon in her hand, would stumble and fall. George Eliot committed atrocities with it, always with words. Jane Austen could not help laughing when she saw such sentences, so she designed sentences that were smooth, natural, beautiful and symmetrical to meet her needs. Therefore, although Charlotte Bronte is not as talented as Charlotte Bronte, she has said more from afar. Indeed, since free and full expression is the essence of this art, when it comes to women's writing, the lack of tradition, the absence of tools, and the inadequacy of tools clearly illustrate many problems. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/361ed964afc6cb53666e9598bf31231bea4d5294997bcf28259a9ca0230962ac.png) But these are difficult questions to answer, still obscure in the distant twilight. I must put them aside so as not to miss the topic. Under their temptation, I walked into a wild forest, lost my way, and probably fell into the mouth of wild animals. This is what I do not want, and I also believe that you do not want to hear me talk about such a sad topic, that is, the future of the novel. So I just stay here for a while. Please note that as far as women are concerned, material conditions are crucial to the future of the novel. Books should be more or less suitable to the body, that is to say, compared with men, women's books should be shorter and more compact, and there is no need to concentrate on their work for a long time and worry about other people's interference. Because interruptions are unavoidable. Moreover, it seems that men and women have different structures of nerves used to nourish their minds. If they want to exert their full efforts and play an outstanding role, they must adjust to the circumstances. For example, it is said that such a long lecture, which lasts for several hours, was developed by monks hundreds of years ago. Is it suitable for them? For them, how should they relax and relax when working and resting? However, don't treat rest as idleness, Rest is also doing things, just changing something different. So what's the difference? This is exactly the question that needs to be discussed and answered. This is exactly what women and novels mean. However, when I walked to the bookshelf again, I thought, where can I go to find an in-depth analysis of women's psychology, and what's more, it should be written by women? --- *Originally published on [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop/difficult-questions)*