Top 10 essays analyzing the mood of the characters in “Happiness of a mourning family” by Vu Trong Phung (11th grade)

One of the most unique chapters in the work of writer Vu Trong Phung’s Red Number is probably the happiness of a mourning family. The satire in the chapter has partly reflected the content of the whole work. Funeral family and happiness, it seems that this is a joke, but it is actually very realistic for the story of the great-grandfather Hong.

Because the death of the great-grandfather is the wish of many people, the desire of all the descendants in the family. So after many times of dying and coming back to life, the old man finally died. It is true that the great-grandfather lived a long life and his children hated it, so when he died, everyone was secretly happy, everyone had their own happiness. His son, the great-great-grandfather Hong, is now officially on the throne, becoming the most prominent person in the family. From now on he could boast to the world of his old age, of the authoritative drudgery of the head of a civilized family.

The great-grandfather’s daughter-in-law is happy because there is no other opportunity to show off the majesty of the family like this occasion. She can flaunt her prestige to the whole world, can brag about the one-of-a-kind, biggest funeral in the whole country, the funeral where there are palanquins, bowls, trumpets, and cameras. photographed in a hurry, covered with flowers, crowded with people, generally surrounded by monks, the size of an honorable family.

Grandson Van Minh is happy because from now on, the will has gone into practice, no longer on paper. Mr. Van Minh’s happiness is the most obvious and related to material values. Van Minh’s niece-in-law is happy because this is an opportunity for her shop to show off modern mourning patterns to the whole world. They will see how the glamorous innovations of her Westernization store are displayed at this funeral.

Granddaughter Tuyet borrowed his funeral as an opportunity to prove her innocence and show off her spring beauty through innovative models. She didn’t look for a lover and wore a sad, romantic, and shy look at her grandfather’s funeral.

For grandson Tu Tan, the funeral was an opportunity for him to show off his camera talent, the talent of a professional artist in commanding troops. It must be known that in this era, to have a camera is to be very luxurious, very rich and stylish. So he had to prove himself by jumping on the grave to direct the army to lower the grave and take pictures. Grandson-in-law Phan grew horns because he was happy because his horns were known to everyone, not only that, but also caused his great-grandfather to die. You can then boast to the world that I am a cuckolded husband, unhappy and betrayed.

With the red-haired Xuan, he borrowed the funeral to promote his image as a decent and very pompous gentleman, he used this occasion to collect the debt of Mr. Phan. The people in the house, even outsiders, close friends, near and far, also bring unique happiness to the funeral. Old men borrow funerals to show off their medals, achievements, and prestige. Not only that, here you also have the opportunity to see the beauty of young women at funerals like Ms. Tuyet. The elegant young women, the young class of young people, borrow the funeral as an opportunity to meet, exchange, bird and mouse, and date each other.

The atmosphere of the funeral was as joyful as a festival. Everyone who attended brought their own thoughts and they made the funeral truly exciting and bustling, even the dead sometimes had to get up and be satisfied.

Indeed, building the happiness of the characters in the story, author Vu Trong Phung made the reader’s eyes widen, clearly felt the emotional feelings of each person and the funeral scene in the sentence. story from which to understand the logic of the work. Funerals like this are truly happy, satirical happiness.

Vu Trong Phung is a successful talented writer in the novel genre. Typically, the work “Red Numbers” has recreated the realistic picture of Vietnamese people and society in the first half of the twentieth century with ludicrous tricks, swindlers under the pen of criticism and profound satire. In which the most impressive is the excerpt “Happiness of a mourning family” located in chapter XV of the work, leaving a deep impression in the hearts of readers by the happy and joyful mood of the characters in the excerpt.

The mourning family that the great family, inside and outside, everyone is excited about, looking forward to that moment to flaunt and show off to satisfy their own desires. Although each person has their own joy, together they have contributed to creating a common mood of mourning and fun.

The first is the joyful and happy mood of the children and grandchildren in the family. As usual, when a loved one dies, the parent must be in great pain, grief and mourning, but here all descendants from the elderly to the young, from the eldest son to the great-grandchildren are looking forward to it. the moment the great-grandfather died. And when that becomes a reality, joy flows in every vein, each person’s flesh “That death makes many people very happy” because it means that the other will will enter the practice period, not It’s not just a theory anymore.” Their happiness is the happiness of money, fame and frivolous values, not the human love of blood relatives in the family for each other. .

As the oldest person in the family, he is the eldest son of the late Ancestor, while his family is confused, his father’s body is still lying downstairs, but great-grandfather Hong is still lying upstairs dreamily, imagining the scene ” The old man was wearing a pajama suit, leaning on a stick, coughing and crying so that people would have to point: “Wow, you’re so old.” Normally, no one wants to be old, but it’s strange that great-grandmother has the desire to be called old. For him, organizing a funeral for his father was an opportunity to show off the large funeral that showed the rich wealth of the upper class. The old man was an unfilial son followed by all the descendants of a family with a lot of money but exhausted of love.

Mr. Van Minh, the great grandson of his great grandfather, went to study abroad in the West when he returned with the name of a social reformer. The one-step man brought the rogue, the red-haired Vampire Xuan to become the most meritorious person for society at that time. Before the death of his grandfather, he was happy because of the division of property, the first thing immediately after was to invite a lawyer to come and execute the will left by the great-grandfather. His condition on the outside is thoughtful, scratching his head, pulling his hair, his expression is confused, his face is always meditative, which is very suitable for the situation of mourning, but in reality, his stomach inside is wondering what to do with Xuan. How to be reasonable by two small sins and a big grace. The writer has exposed his false and inhuman nature by going deep into the character’s inner thoughts.

Mrs. Van Minh was impatient because she couldn’t wear a modern pajama outfit and a pretty hat, while mourning her family, she still didn’t forget the desire to promote the clothes of the Westernized tailor shop. The niece-in-law did not have the slightest sympathy for the deceased.

Equally happy is Mr. Phan’s grandson-in-law growing horns with joy overflowing in his heart, proud with invisible horns on his head that are so valuable. He got a few thousand thanks to those horns when his father-in-law whispered in his ear that he would give his daughter and in-law some more money. But at the last moment, when he said goodbye to the dead, he burst into tears. A laughable, ironic detail because the hypocrisy would not have realized the truth if he hadn’t put a quarter-fold five-dollar bill in Xuan’s hand to pay for the transaction of promoting invisible horns that cause harm. so the death for the great-grandfather.

If the writers of the same time directed their pen to the peasants suffering with tragedies of poverty, the tragedy of alienation, Vu Trong Phung focused on exploiting the people of the upper class. to reflect the hypocrisy and immorality of society. These things are clearly expressed by him in the excerpt “Happiness of a mourning family” – an excerpt from chapter XV of the novel “Red Number”.

The characters in the excerpt are typical characters of the urban upper class at that time. People praise uprising, learning a “civilized” way of life without realizing that it is that learning that causes moral values ​​to disappear and is replaced by the corruption of human dignity. “Happiness of a mourning family” opens with the sentence: “Three days later, the old man really died” as to announce the death of his great-grandfather and also an opportunity for his descendants as well as outsiders to The family expressed their joy. This is a funeral that is in stark contrast to other funerals because people often grieve and mourn the death of their loved ones, but the great-grandfather’s funeral makes many people happy. His death “made many people very happy”. The children and grandchildren in the family are the happiest and most excited because “the other will will enter the practice period, not the theory anymore”. That joy is the joy of people who live for fame and fortune but lose their morals, lose the good values ​​of social morality.

They are all happy with the joy of the whole family, but each has its own joys. The mood of the eldest son reflected the hypocrisy and unfilial piety towards his parents. Before the death of his father, great-grandfather Hong “closed his eyes to daydream about the time when he was wearing a bucket of thorns, limping on a cane, coughing and crying, so that people would have to point: Wow, the miss is so old!” Are those coughs, crying, and tears part of the genuine pity or just lying tears to cover the eyes of the world? Great-grandfather Hong wants to show the whole society that his family is a wealthy upper class family. In fact, his actions were all aimed at showing off his old age, showing off his filial piety, and showing off his reputation: “I’m ten percent sure that everyone should praise such a funeral, such a stick”. Surely that will make people think that it is a blessed family because the great-grandfather is a long-lived person. Van Minh – the great grandson of the great-great-grandfather should have mourned the passing of his grandfather, but Van Minh was happy to share the property.

It is unethical for anyone who is not happy when suddenly having money and possessions, but is happy with the benefit brought from the death of a loved one. Van Minh only has one concern that is “inviting a lawyer to witness the death of his grandfather” and dividing assets according to the will. This is an opportunity for him to show off the new fashions of the chemist shop and also an opportunity to show off his honor. In the midst of such joy, he “only bothered to know how to deal with Xuan Red Hair” because Xuan “despite the crime of seducing one of his sisters, denouncing another girl’s adultery. but by chance caused the death of a worthy old man.” Van Minh knows that Red Hair Xuan is a person who has no degree or expertise in medicine but still invites him to treat his grandfather. Didn’t that act indirectly cause the death of the great-grandfather? Just because he wondered how to repay Xuan, he had a thoughtful, fashionable face with “a person’s face when the family is a confused mourner”. The author has deeply exploited the thoughts of the character to highlight the mood and nature of the grandson who is known for being knowledgeable because he spent time studying abroad.

Besides the husband’s joy, Van Minh’s wife is also overjoyed because she has the opportunity to promote the new fashions of the modernized tailor shop, the costumes that “can be given to those who are in mourning because of the enemy. death also enjoys a little happiness in life.” As a niece-in-law, she was only impatient because “always could not wear modern pajamas, white cap with black border – dernières créations”. The main purpose of Van Minh’s wife is to advertise and promote the designs of the tailor shop, not to mourn the fate of the great-grandfather. Funerals have become a fashion runway, not a place for people to express their condolences to the deceased. That action went against the traditional cultural values ​​of the nation.

When the great-grandfather Hong told him that he would “divide his daughter and son-in-law an additional amount of several thousand dong”, Mr. Phan was extremely excited. He himself did not expect that “the value of the invisible deer antlers on his head is so big”. He did not seem to feel that his honor was tarnished, but rather grateful that his wife’s adultery had brought him great profit. Right at that funeral, he planned a “business” with Xuan Red Hair so that he could have a few thousand more silver because he was very talented in advertising. Readers thought that Mr. Phan was a filial nephew when Vu Trong Phung described his cry, but his cry was “Huh! Huh! Huh!” forever and ever. That cry revealed the deceitful nature of his precious nephew-in-law when it was just an excuse for him to fall over and put a four-fold five-dollar bill into Xuan Red Hair’s hand. For him, the funeral is the place where the exchange and trade took place with Xuan – who made a big contribution to helping him receive a few thousand more dong.

One of Van Minh’s younger sisters that Xuan seduce is the innocent Tuyet. In addition to the joy of performing fashion trends, wearing modern pajamas, she also wants to show off her virtues to the world. She wears the Innocent outfit – “a thin chiffon dress with a corset in it that looks like it’s bare armpits and half of her breasts – but with a black border, and a pretty cap”. Tuyet wore that outfit to prove to the whole society that “I have not lost my virginity”. She wore this to dispel rumors of being spoiled too much by the world. What filial grandson would dress like that at his grandfather’s funeral? It turned out that the funeral was an opportunity for Tuyet to show off her beauty, show off her virtues, show off herself as a traditional and standard girl, but in fact, the innocent Tuyet was a spoiled girl. Her face “has a bit of a romantic sadness that is very fashionable in a married family” but that sadness does not come from mourning for her great-grandfather, but from waiting for Xuan Red Hair when she has not seen her “best friend”. “I showed up. It made her feel like she was stabbed in the heart.

Young Tu Tan took advantage of his great-grandfather’s death to show off his photography skills. He was “crazy” because he was “ready for the cameras that he never used”. He asked everyone at the funeral to pose for a photo, he “begged everyone one by one, or leaned on a stick, or hung his head, or arched his back, or wiped his eyes like this, that…” The funeral was like a fair for him and the amateurs to take pictures to show off their talents.

The descendants have created a caricature that reflects the reality of a “big bitch” society. They are completely indifferent and do not have the slightest affection for their deceased loved ones. It is a family that is unfilial, hypocritical in living and treating each other like strangers. They always run after money but are heartless and insensitive to the people they are close to.

Not only depicting the descendants of the great-grandfather’s family, writer Vu Trong Phung also portrayed the mood of people outside the family who attended the funeral. They represent classes of contemporary society, with names and positions. Police Min De and Min Toa were “hired to keep order for the funeral”. They are “extremely happy” and “take care of them wholeheartedly” because the great-grandfather Hong’s family created jobs for them. The close friends of the great-great-grandfather Hong came to offer condolences to the family, but their real intention was to show off medals such as “Bac Dau Boi Tinh, Long Boi Tinh, Cao Men Boi Tinh”,… They showed off their name. mustaches “either long or short, or black or tawny, or rumpled or bushy, or curly”. They are also greedy people when “seeing the white skin in the chiffon shirt on the arm and the snow chest, everyone is more moved than when they hear the mournful, heartbreaking Spring trumpet”. As an opportunity to showcase new fashions, Mr. Typn was “frustrated at not being able to see his creations open to the public to see what the press was saying”. Monk Tang Phu of the Go Mo newspaper was “happy”, “pretentious”, victorious because he had defeated the Buddhist Association. The monk attended the funeral to show off his honor and victory. Xuan Red Hair is also grateful and praised by everyone. His appearance at the funeral is also a way to show off his feats and enhance his self-worth. In addition, the author also did not forget to mention the elegant ladies going to the funeral. This is an opportunity for them to “love each other, laugh at each other, criticize each other, criticize each other, be jealous of each other, date each other, with sad faces”.

With the art of satire, Vu Trong Phung denounced the ridiculous and fake nature of the urban elite before the Revolution. Each character is a realistic brushstroke that creates a vivid realistic picture. Thereby, the “King of the reportage of Bac Ky” also shows the sarcastic and ironic attitude of the elites’ hypocrisy, unfilial piety, inhumanity, and unrighteousness. When other writers “want the novel to be a novel”, Vu Trong Phung and other like-minded writers “wants the novel to be real”. Because of that, his pen always speaks the truth, always slams deeply into the dark side of social reality.

Someone said: Comedy is the marble that is pushed to the top. The root of comedy is sadness, and deeper is the desire for beauty. Behind the laughter, we see the author’s criticism and dissatisfaction with reality. This is completely verifiable through the works of Vu Trong Phung. Each of his works is a long series of laughs filled with indignation thrown at the ridiculous, corrupt society of the time. Among them, Red Number (1936) is the typical work. His sharp laughter breaks out in every chapter of the novel. The most special is the excerpt Happiness of a bereaved family, located in chapter XV. The excerpt has fully portrayed the characters through a special situation. Each chapter in the red novel has its own title, and each title is sensational, unique, and attracts the reader’s attention.

Even in the naming: “Happiness of a mourning family” has revealed a satirical situation: “Mang family” is “happy”, while someone dies but is happy. This title shows that mourning is really confusing but happily confused, confused not to organize a funeral but to organize a festival, a procession. Laughter only pops up monkeys have contradictions, paradoxical stories, contrary to common sense, human life. From this very important opening laughter, the reader follows the author’s instructions to discover the series of contradictions that follow, and at each contradiction, laughter bursts into a long, painful sequence of laughter. . Through this satirical situation, the portraits of characters in the “Red Number” society also appear very vividly, from the portraits of individuals to the portraits of a collective, from family members to social figures. If the portraits of individuals appear most clearly in the funeral scene, the portrait of the crowd is added in the funeral scene.

The dead person is the great-grandfather. He left his descendants a great fortune, but this evil old man wrote in his will that he would only distribute the property to his descendants after his death. Therefore, the children and grandchildren impatiently waited for his death like waiting for a happiness. And “that death has made many people very happy”. Thus, the first step, Vu Trong Phung discovered the common happiness of the great-grandfather’s descendants. Their happiness makes the grief of death and separation completely meaningless. The atmosphere of the funeral was bustling and jubilant as if they were entering the main festival: “People jubilantly go to give obituaries, call trumpets, hire funerals”; “The children and grandchildren are all happy and satisfied”, The guests who came to offer condolences were equally “busy”. Not stopping at discovering the common joy of relatives before the unlucky zombie, Vu Trong Phung also took another important step, bringing a sharp pen into the thoughts of each character to expose and mercilessly release all their selfish joys and happiness.

Great-grandfather Hong appeared as a pseudo-realist, studying as a servant. At the age of 60, he already likes being called a great-grandfather. Until now, he was only allowed to play the old role in the family. Now, his father’s death has given him a golden opportunity to show off his old age to the world. He closed his eyes and dreamed of the scene when he was wearing a pajamas, coughing, and crying so that people would have to point his finger: “Wow, the baby is so old.” While the mourners were confused, the straight waiter counted 1782 harsh sentences “I know, it’s very hard, talk forever”. What do you know? We don’t know, just see that exposed on the page is a person who likes to show off. He repeated the sentence like a parrot. Without thinking because of the sentence itself, he is not aware of what it is. Just like the number 1782 saying “I know, it’s so hard, keep talking”, readers can’t help but notice the number of 60 opium cigarettes. People often say “mourning family is confused” but here it seems that great-grandfather Hong is not worried at all. The fact that the father lay down had nothing to do with the great-grandfather’s routine. The pleasure of the opium left in the lungs has dispelled all the original father-son feelings. Not only being unfilial, the great-grandfather Hong was even more despicable because he tried to play the role of a filial son. The reader, after bursting out laughing at the strangeness of the old man, is even more saddened and indignant when he realizes the false, snobbish, and pompous nature of the character.

There is a folk saying: “the house leaks from the roof”, the great-grandfather’s descendants also proved not to be inferior to their fathers. The first portrait of the descendants is Mr. Van Minh. This character appears with a wistful face that is very suitable for a family scene. However, what made him wear that face was not his feelings for the deceased, but how to “invite a lawyer to witness the death of the old man” so that “that will will be in real time. It’s not just a theory anymore.” In addition, he wondered how to treat Xuan Red-Haired. Xuan is guilty of accusing one of his sisters of adultery and seducing another sister, causing his family’s house to wobble, but having merit in making the great-grandfather “real dead”. For Van Minh, the other two crimes are only minor sins, but Xuan’s merits are really big. Turns out, the honor, family status, and dignity of the family are not as valuable as the money he is about to receive. Vu Trong Phung was very ingenious when he discovered the contradiction between reality and nature, between the outside and the inside of this character. That wistful face did not come from love, but it was very similar to the scene of a person in mourning.

Mr. Tu Tan is “crazy” because he has prepared a few cameras that have not been used. For him, the funeral of the great-grandfather was just an opportunity to satisfy a hobby, a pastime. Mr. Phan was born horny, although he was the one who directly caused the death of his great-grandfather, but he proved to be very happy. He even “immediately planned a business with Xuan”, this precious nephew-in-law was revealed to be an inhumane money-hungry. He not only considers money more than happiness, but also considers it more important than his honor. That’s why Judge Horned was jubilant and surprised “didn’t expect the invisible deer horns on his head to be so big”. The death of his great-grandfather was the beginning of his great business.

For Mrs. Van Minh and Mr. Typn, the funeral is a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity to promote and advertise the clothing fashions of the Westernization movement. Therefore, when the great-grandfather Hong gave the order to surrender, Van had not yet seen his great-grandfather. Minh’s wife is “frustrated because she can’t wear modern pajamas” and “Mr Typn is very upset because he can’t see his creations for the public to see how critical the press is.” . Thus, Vu Trong Phung has overturned the bourgeois family’s patriarchy in the “Europeanization” and “Liberation” work. The death of the great-grandfather was thought to be a loss, but he gained a great deal; get money, get fame, get love. Sadness turns into joy, great mourning becomes great joy. If being sad while happy is rude, happy at the moment, sad is unkind, then the great-great-grandfather Hong’s family is a great inhumane family. Through this family, the author spoke out a bitter truth: the Westernized way of life has corrupted morality, attacking the most stalwart strongholds of father-son, husband-wife, grandfather-grandchildren. . If in the funeral scene, the funeral of the great-grandfather only makes a family happy, then in the funeral scene, not only the family but also the whole society is excited and jubilant. The funeral is like a jubilant, bustling party, “wherever you go, make a commotion”. It follows our way, the West, China, “with palanquin bowls and piglets swinging around, to whirlwinds clattering and sucking, and wreaths, with up to three hundred couplets.” This is the funeral of the rich, moreover, of the snobs, ostentatious, ridiculous, grotesque, rich but uneducated.

In the wedding scene, Vu Trong Phung was very discerning when he discovered that each person has their own joys. Min De and Min Toa were extremely happy when they were “hired to keep order for the funeral” in the midst of “being sad like a businessman about to default” because “no one deserves to be punished”. The great-grandfather lay down to solve the unemployment problem for these two policemen, so their wholeheartedness is just a heart for money. Vu Trong Phung exposed the nature of the police profession in colonial society. In fact, it has only one function, which is to fine other people’s money. At this funeral “everyone was happy, except one Tuyet”. Tuyet alone suffers to the point that: “I want to commit suicide”, but not because of the dead, but because of love; “Looking all over the faces of the people who went to the funeral, I couldn’t find any friends, Tuyet felt like a needle was pricked in her heart.” In particular, her expression and outfit seem to be very romantic and trendy: “Today Tuyet wore an innocent outfit – a thin chiffon dress with a corset inside, which looked like she was exposing both her armpits and half of her breasts. – but with a black border and a pretty hat to let people know that I haven’t lost my virginity.” For this character, the funeral is an opportunity to explain to the world about her “virginity”, but even in the clarification, the “reasonably corrupt” nature of the “new modern girl” is revealed. .

Like great-grandfather Hong, his friends came to the funeral not to offer condolences, but to show off their beards and medals: “The close friends of great-great-grandfather Hong, their chests were full of medals such as the Bac Dou Boi Tinh, the Long Boi Tinh Long. , Cao Mien has a high quality, Van Tuong is a star, and so on. With satirical, ironic language, the author has carved on the page the faces of grotesque, bizarre, full of caricature. In particular, “big ears and big faces are right next to the coffin, when they see the white skin in the chiffon shirt on Snow’s arms and chest, everyone is more moved when they hear the lamentable Spring trumpet sound. , brainless”. Thus, their outward appearance was stripped bare by Vu Trong Phung.

The death of the great-grandfather made many people very happy. Including monk Tang Phu: “Master Tang Phu is happy and proud to sit on a car, because he is sure that among the people watching in the streets, there will be people who will admit that he is a monk. defeated the Buddhist Association, and thus was the first victory of the Go Mo newspaper. The ugliness has never been revealed publicly, so brazenly, without needing to conceal it. The cultivator who thought he had abandoned his dream world now appeared in his original form as a proud, cunning, and evil man. After depicting individual faces, Vu Trong Phung continued to portray collective faces. A series of conflicting words were used by the author to highlight the portraits of the characters: “It’s so young and elegant, so they flirt, laugh at each other, criticize each other, criticize each other, jealous of each other, dating each other with the sad expressions of the people going to the funeral”, These mass actors play the roles very skillfully. They went to deliver the ghost, but there was no question to the person lying down, but only whispered the words “joyful, thoughtful, very worthy of those who go to the funeral”.

As it turned out, not only the descendants of the great-grandfather were unfilial, but the contemporary society was also an inhuman, hypocritical society. The funeral was full of everything, from wreaths, couplets, to scarves and hats, but there was only one thing missing, that is love. Even the last cry of Mr. makes this even more obvious: “he was crying so hard he wanted to be quiet (…). Mr. Phan kept crying, crying forever.. Huh!… Huh! …Hush”. Crying but laughing. He cried until he couldn’t stand to finish his business with Xuan Red Hair: “Spring Red Hair wanted to leave the sarcophagus, when he suddenly saw Mr. Phan pressing a four-fold five-dollar bill in his hand”. This is the last character that closes the episode “Happiness of a mourning family” and is also one of the excellent actors. He deceived not only outsiders but even Xuan who was inside did not know.

In the funeral, there are people who accidentally but also people who intentionally play a very good role. This funeral appears to be a stage of life. It is also a ton of life games where the descendants are the actors. Children and grandchildren are inhuman, society is immoral, all for money, for love, for fame, for profit. According to the story line, that corruption is spreading more and more, from the family to the whole society. Just like the old Banzac wrote about the dead but meant the living, behind Vu Trong Phung’s laughter, we can see the author’s high resentment towards contemporary upper society. The excerpt can be seen as a miniature red number, in which the author’s thoughts and art are uniquely expressed.

There are few people in the world who are “happy”, “happy”, “happy” at the death of a person, sometimes even the death of a mortal enemy is not like that. What’s more, it’s the departure of a loved one, the departure of the parent, how can one be happy? But strangely ironic, there is a “mourning family” in Vu Trong Phung’s novel “Red Numbers” who is “happy”, “a lot of people are happy”, and “everyone is happy”. ..! This was clearly shown in the chapter Happiness of a Bereavement.

Vu Trong Phung is known as the “Northern reporting king” and he has many famous works such as bringing his own style and he is most famous for the satirical literature. The work Red Number is one of the most “loved children” of this talented writer. And perhaps the work is good in the way the writer builds many characters, but each character seems to have its own nuance to blend into the overall nuance of the story.

Chapter V titled Happiness of a Bereavement is a unique chapter as it shows typical character traits. In this chapter, the author has successfully built typical situations to reveal unique personalities. First of all, it is necessary to talk about the attitude of those who have a close relationship with the great Ancestor. Grandpa’s death did not make any children or grandchildren mourn because for a long time, they wanted him to die quickly to divide the inheritance. Instead, his death brought joy – a “happiness”.

The horned Mr. Phan is the first member mentioned by the author among those descendants. The great-grandson’s “precious” grandson-in-law is happy because with the help of Xuan Do, his wife’s scandalous plan to make a “digging” weapon has been successful. Thanks to that, this grandson “was whispered in his ear by the great-grandfather Hong that he would give his daughter and son-in-law an additional amount of several thousand dong”. He himself “didn’t expect that the value of the invisible deer horns on his head would be so great”.

Great-grandfather Hong’s joy was of the “blind pious” type to the point of being stupid and ridiculous. For this odd character, the death of a dear old man will be a rare opportunity for great-grandfather Hong to become a great-grandfather in front of the public, even though in terms of age, he is only in his fifties! He “closed his eyes to dream of the time when he was wearing a bucket of thorns, kneeling on his cane, coughing and crying so that people would have to point, “Wow, the baby is so old!” and “I’m tenth sure that everyone should praise a funeral like that, a stick like that, …”.

As for Van Minh – the great grandson of his great-grandfather, he also has a reason to be happy: he will certainly be divided into a very large fortune, so his “concern” is to “invite a lawyer to witness the death.” grandfather’s”. It’s fun because “so from now on that will will go into practice, not just a theory anymore”.

The rest of the members were only really happy when Mr. Hong gave the order to surrender. Because the funeral of the great-great-grandfather is an event for each of them to have the opportunity to perform their individual role in front of society: Mrs. Van Minh will perform a modern-fashion bucket dress, Tuyet can wear a costume. called Innocent to prove to the world that he has not lost his virginity… Then Mr. Tu Tan will demonstrate his photography skills at the funeral, and Mr. Typn is happy because the press promotes the fashion models he likes. thick theory…

The joy and happiness brought by the death of the great great-grandfather not only filled the souls of the members of the great-great-grandfather Hong’s family, but also spread beyond the bereaved family. That is the joy of suddenly having a job, two scenes of the eighteenth series, Min De and Min Toa, were hired to keep order for the funeral “who took care of it with all their heart”.

The “big ears and big faces” – friends of the great-great-grandfather Hong, on the occasion of their condolences to the bereaved family, had the opportunity to show off their life’s merits with all kinds of medals “Bac Dau Boi Tinh, Long Boi Tinh, Cao Men”. betrayal, Van Tuong betrayal…”. However, that bearded group was satisfied and happy when they came to offer condolences, suddenly enjoying the white skin in the chiffon shirt on Snow’s chest.

Monk Zeng Phu is “happy and swaggering in a car because he’s sure that among the people watching on the street, someone will probably realize that he has overthrown the Buddhist Association…” To the crowd Thanh Thanh, women of Ha Thanh calendar, who are not involved at all in kinship and blood relations with the deceased, their joy here is an opportunity to “bird together, laugh with each other, comment on each other.” , denigrate each other, be jealous of each other, date each other…”. But perhaps the happiest person is Xuan Red-haired, although he is not aware of it. The death of the great-grandfather brought Xuan two bargains including honor and money.

The funeral scene is like a meeting. Boys and girls are “birds and mice”, guests are happy because they can show off or are secretly happy when they can have a bit of property of the deceased. The chorus “Let’s go” seems to suggest something that evokes a large funeral but is filled with ridiculous and ridiculous habits. “Let’s go…” also means that shamelessness never ends, it persists in society forever. It does not disappear, but it seems to be changed in many different forms.

And by the time the funeral stopped “just go” but also stopped to lower the grave, Vu Trong Phung seems to have given the reader two unique details, pushing the scene to bring this group to the climax. The first detail is the scene where Mr. Tu Tan retorts each person to do the movements, and at that time, he holds the sad postures to let him… take pictures. The second detail that is mentioned is that Mr. Phan is horned, the most dishonest and shameless person in this family and also cried to the point of fainting. However, we can see that in the midst of crying and weeping, he himself quickly put a five-dollar bill into Xuan Red Hair’s hand for calling him “the horned husband” and at the same time also It is the indirect work that causes the old man to die. And these are really the top actors of the world’s stories. With just those two remarkable details, the chapter on human hypocrisy completely and sharply closes.

This happiness, unusual happiness, strangeness, even monstrosity, through Vu Trong Phung’s pen, seems to have a very wide spread: from superiors to subordinates, from bereaved relatives to outsiders. Funeral. The author has exposed the ridiculous Westernized society with frivolous, trivial, meaningless pleasures.

Red Number is considered the best work of Vu Trong Phung as well as of modern Vietnamese satirical literature. That satirical nature is not only reflected in the language, tone, and situation, but is also expressed most directly and sharply through the portraits of each character in the work in the excerpt Happy a funeral.

The story begins with the death of an old man – great-grandfather. It was a grandfather, father, and respected friend of an upper-class family. Thoughts of that death will cause unrelenting grief in the hearts of those who stay. But no, the death of the great-grandfather is the joy, the ultimate happiness of all descendants. Because the will on this paper has been put into practice, they will receive huge inheritances. It was in the midst of the bereavement’s confusion that they each jumped up in a different way, putting on a different face to express their grief in their utter happiness.

Great-grandfather Hong closed his eyes dreamily when he thought of the moment when he put on a pajamas suit, kneeled on his cane, cried while crying, letting people point: Wow, the baby is so old. . This is an opportunity for great-grandfather Hong to act in front of the crowd, an opportunity to show his filial piety to his father by organizing a huge funeral. Mr. Van Minh: Private joy mixed with shared joy. Mr. Van Minh’s joy is a high expression of the joy of the whole family: impatiently waiting for the lawyer to come to actually divide the fortune. Mr. Van Minh was also described in detail by Vu Trong Phung, writhing, scratching his head, and pulling his hair, but in fact, he did not know how to deal with red-haired Xuan, rather than worrying about organizing his funeral. ancestor. As for Mrs. Van Minh, his wife is happy to wear a modern pajamas, she is happy to show her face, because the latest fashion models she will use on this occasion to launch on the market, turning the funeral into a place of worship. show, announce the latest collection.

He said that he was horny, happy, and gloating when he knew the value of the swelling on his head, because of it, he would enjoy an additional part of his fortune. That money is compensation for his honor. In the funeral cry Huh! Mr. Phan’s horns were continuously resounded, he cried so hard that he couldn’t stand, it took Xuan Red Hair to help him stand up. Thought it was a very real and sincere pain, but the act of shoving money into Xuan Red Hair’s hand with a quarter-fold bill exposed the deceitful face of the horned Mr. Phan. That action also shows the scheme of a business cooperation with Xuan red-haired to make a profit.

As for Tuyet – the half spoiled girl is happy because she will be able to wear modern costumes, innocent clothes, half-closed, thin chiffon dress, a pretty mushroom hat, and a beautiful face. Sad romantic is very fashionable in a family. The innocent clothes Snow wears to prove that she is not spoiled to the world, and the sad face is very romantic, thinking it is sadness due to the loss of a loved one, but in fact it is because she misses her lover – Xuan Red Hair is forever her Xuan has not yet appeared at the funeral. The outer appearance and the reality inside were exposed by Vu Trong Phung’s use of profound satire.

Uncle Tu Tan, when he heard that he died, he went crazy because his newly purchased camera was about to be put into use. While lowering the grave in sloppy clothes, he rebuked each person with a stick, bowed his head, arched his back, wiped his eyes, etc. It seemed that Mr. Tu Tan was like a great director to make the funeral play more painful. perfect part.

The laughter of intense hatred for the feudal bourgeois colonial society, the society that Vu Trong Phung called “the bastard”, the “bad dog” in the Red Number in general and the happiness of a mourning family in particular, kept swirling. deep into the mind of the reader. It is a “merciful attitude” built on two things, cruelty and lies are the most profound expressions captured in the seemingly paradoxical but reasonable sentence: “That death did it. make a lot of people happy.”

A large family, many descendants, relatives and acquaintances of great-grandfather Hong is a ridiculous bourgeois feudal society. When born, grow up, mature into life, people always wish for their happiness. When leaving with dust, there is nothing more than the desire to receive the painful tears of the living. However, when going down to the “golden stream”, the death of the great-grandfather brought so much joy, excitement, and joy to the descendants of Mr. Hong’s family. That person’s affection only exists in an unjust society full of corruption and filth. The story seems to be typical of the evil that society has brought to Vu Trong Phung’s work. Right in the title of the excerpt, the author meant to emphasize cruelty and lies. Happiness is associated with mourning and mourning creates happiness. The passage highlights these two opposites with a natural, logically amusing allegory.

Looking at the facial expressions and actions of each character in the story chapter, readers feel the happiness they will receive and have been waiting for a long time. When he died, I don’t know if the great-grandfather realized that death made many people very happy. Happiness was overflowing through the dreamy eyes of the great-grandfather Hong when he thought, “When he was wearing a pajamas, he was leaning on a cane, coughing, and crying, so that people would have to point out:

– Oh my, the baby girl has come like that!

He reminded all ten that everyone should praise such a funeral, such a stick… The prospect that appeared before Mr. Hong’s eyes was so strange and bitter, People came to take the body of the great-grandfather. down to the golden stream, not to see how old his “son” was, what stick he was holding, and how big or small the funeral was. But, those thoughts reflected the mood of Mr. Hong in the “busy” and “chaotic” funeral.

As for Mr. Phan growing horns, he saw that “didn’t expect that the value of the invisible deer horns on his head would be so big?”. He was happy when he heard Mr. Hong whispering in his ear that he would give his daughter and in-law an extra amount of several thousand dong. It seems that to bring the great-great-grandmother, Mr. Phan grew horns and received such a large amount of money unexpectedly. Anyway, “that death” also brought him so much happiness and joy. With the horn that Xuan Red Hair accidentally or intentionally attached to Mr. Phan is enough for him to thank him. In the atmosphere of a noisy funeral, “the waiter had counted one thousand eight hundred and seven two, the harsh sentence “I know, it’s so hard, keep talking!” of the great-grandfather Hong, Mr. calculating with Xuan the business… but first of all, paying the full five dong for Xuan, even in that sacred moment of a person’s life ended, people still can’t forget a little of his glory. money, the more passionately and passionately they rush after it.

“In front of the eyes of a bunch of filial children just impatient to quickly bury the dead body of their great-grandfather”, the great-grandfather Hong closed his eyes and cried out in pain. Why are their fake faces so ugly and despicable. They come to the funeral to display their creative costumes for everyone to “admire”. Mr. Tu Tan was going crazy because he had ready the cameras that he never used. Mrs. Van Minh is impatient because she can’t wear modern pajamas, white hats with black border – are “the latest fashion creations”. The things that are very good together that the Westernization store, once promoted, can give those who have mourning and pain because the dead also enjoy a little happiness in life. So, they went to the funeral as if they were going to a wedding. They only know how to satisfy their wishes and desires while not paying attention to who examined the great-grandfather when he was ill and after his death. As for his granddaughter, Ms. Tuyet, very naturally, she displayed unsuitable modern clothes. With Tuyet’s innocent clothes and her lover’s look, it was enough to show that the death of the great-grandfather only made them happy and happy.

Each person, each look, the policemen Min De and Min Toa were also extremely happy when they were hired by this “big” funeral to maintain order. “So everyone’s funeral is happy.” A funeral followed all the ways of Ta, China, and West, “with palanquin with bowls and tributes, pigs spinning and swinging, until whirlwinds clattering and sucking and garlands of flowers, up to three hundred couplets, a few hundred people going to bring them, there are Mr. Tu Tan “commanders” is messy, tumultuous and boisterous, it deserves as a fair for amateurs to take pictures. “What a great funeral that can make the dead person lying in the coffin smile happily, if not nodding his head.” The sentence sounds so bitter and bitter. It seems that in that complex society no longer exists human love. They treat each other, come together only because of the bright light of the “modern civilized” lifestyle leading the way, some of their thoughts have nothing to do with the dead person himself. In their hearts, it seems that there is no longer any love between people. Between them is the gap of cruelty and lies.

Reading the first part of the excerpt, I thought the heart of the great-grandfather’s descendants was so disgusting. But not yet, it is the unfilial and unfilial descendants who want to affirm that they are the most filial people in the world. The funeral they are holding must become a model in the world. Those who longed for their father’s quick death found happiness because it was an opportunity for them to show their filial piety by organizing a large, resounding funeral, that “dirty” desire exists in every day. grandchild, inhumane, unjust means all the complicated, chaotic life of a corrupt, “regular” social life.

The story of a family becomes what represents an entire society. From the happiness and joy of a “horrible bunch of people” is a “mercy state” built on the foundation of cruelty and lies. People and people to each other are like frozen ice, frozen, without any warmth of love. The great-grandfather’s death did not cause any suffering to anyone, they came to the funeral to get and execute the will soon. Only quietly behind the book is the pain of laughter and tears and indignation of the writer and the readers. His grandchildren and children consider themselves filial, they do not realize that in their thoughts and actions, they are cruel and deceitful to the extreme. The bridge they created to reach the two words “chi filial piety” is the word cruel and deceitful.

Trying to hide the ugly, rotten interior from the outside is a cruel lie. The world they are living in, existing is not a world of affection. The world of human love exists only when people trust and respect each other. And here, people are like offerings for the inhuman and unfilial cycle.

Their happiness and happiness are different, but they are all gathered under two cruel and deceitful things. The people who go to the funeral are very large, the evil, the corruption of society is everywhere. With the chorus: “Let’s go”, the author has described a huge funeral that people are free to admire. But in that group, no one really went to the funeral. All in the family or outside the family, old or young, man or woman, although trying to keep a sad face, they are actually happy and happy because of something. “The crowd keeps going” means shamelessness, falsehood that goes on blatantly without ending and does not know how long it will last, when it will end. The world of humanity that the work, the excerpt says, is only cruel and deceitful. That cruelty and lies do not only take place in the “foreigner” society, but it exists more deeply and boldly than in the people themselves with the same family, relatives, and acquaintances. The rich, wealthy and noisy funeral of the great ancestor could not cover the cruel and deceitful nature of Mr. Hong, Mr. and Mrs. Van Minh, Xuan Red Hair and even the monk Tang Phu…

The ridiculousness of the funeral with the image of two great con artists appearing – Xuan Toc Do and Monk Tang Phu made the cruelty and lies revealed more clearly and deeply. Why is the great-grandmother Hong excited by the presence of these two characters? Because of the six cars with umbrellas on them carrying monks from Ba Banh pagoda? Because of two massive wreaths? Who knows that! Just knowing the presence of these things made the already ridiculous funeral even more ridiculous. It is only known that monk Tang Phu took advantage of “the opportunity of mourning to profit in the political struggle to strengthen the prestige of the Buddhist Association”. Red Hair Xuan is the benefactor of the great-grandfather Hong’s family and the “beloved husband” of Ms. Tuyet.

Family happiness, under Vu Trong Phung’s sharp eyes, these evil people are not a “group of people”, they are numerous and ubiquitous. Therefore, some people consider the funeral of their great-grandfather as a journey to the grave of the entire feudal colonial society. Because its lies and cruelty have come to the point of blatant and loud disclosure, who can let it exist and make jokes forever.

Vu Trong Phung is known as the “Northern reporting king” and he has many famous works such as bringing his own style and he is most famous for his satirical literature. The work “Red Numbers” is one of the most “loved children” of this talented writer. And perhaps the work is good in the way the writer builds many characters, but each character seems to have its own nuance to blend into the overall nuance of the story.

Chapter V with the title “Happiness of a mourning family” is a unique chapter as it shows typical character traits. I also saw that everything started with the death of an old man. That old man was the father, the grandfather of “a large and respectable family” of a society considered a “upper-class” civilized society. We both seem to see that all the family has “fazed each other in a different way”. But what if the excitement is due to suffering and also because of pain, because of anxiety… before the death of a loved one? No, there’s definitely no way they were upset because…. happy ! “That death has made many people very happy” Perhaps it is Vu Trong Phung’s seemingly paradoxical sentence that also seems to have captured everything “the world of love”.

And we can see that the statement itself is not a fabrication for the fun of the writer. The truth also seems to have been very specific. Mr. Phan’s character grows horns after the death of his wife’s grandfather, he suddenly finds his “horny growth” has also been increased in price by several thousand dong. And great-grandfather Hong seems to have been very happy as well, “dreaming about the time to wear buckets of spikes. He seemed to have collapsed, leaning on a stick, coughing, and crying” to hope that people would praise “such a funeral, such a stick, …”. And Mr. Van Minh’s character is the true grandson, a social reformer? He seemed to be overjoyed, because with his grandfather’s death the will would go into effect rather than being on paper. And this means that the wish for one’s grandfather to die in order to share the inheritance has come true a long-awaited reality. As for Mrs. Van Minh, she also “has” them with the joy of the funeral, she is happy in the right way of a modern woman, she has also received a rare chance from the death of her husband’s grandfather. to be able to wear “modern clothes” are the “modern pajamas”, the “new fashion creations” of her grotesque European tailor shop.

As for the character of Ms. Tuyet – a spoiled girl but only “half spoiled”, and Tuyet is a young girl who is very typical for the “modern day” society. Tuyet chose and wore a semi-closed and half-open outfit, with that facial expression that was a “romantic sadness” here because it was because she missed her lover, not because she loved the dead, causing a real effect. How many matches. Perhaps the big-faced people who went to the funeral seemed to be as attentive as looking at Tuyet’s provocative look to be touched, but as if they were really touched by the sadness of mourning, what a bunch of ridiculous descendants. . The funeral is really big, maybe this funeral is so big that “can make the dead person lying in the coffin also smile happily”. People also seem to have used the funeral to the fullest extent to show off their wealth, and even to show off their pretended filial piety.

But not stopping there, in Vu Trong Phung’s eyes, we also saw the group of fake people not only including that small group. They also seem to be quite numerous. We can see the whole Europeanized civilized society. Starting with two police representatives as well as being synonymous with the state, Mr. Min De and Mr. Min Toa. Author Vu Trong Phung also seems to have expressed the joy of the two teachers when they were hired by the funeral homeowner to keep order. We can see the reason for the joy, only because they have nothing to do and are “sad like a merchant about to default”. Next is the big face, that is the “flower” class of the social elite. It seems that the face is luxurious, the person wearing a full range of “meaningful” things. We can see in this funeral, their emotion is not that they remember the deceased, and it seems that it is not because of the trumpet sound, but just because … can be watched for free. The white skin seemed to be crawling in Miss Tuyet’s thin shirt.

More specifically, it is also the appearance of two great con artists, Xuan Toc Do and Monk Tang Phu, on this occasion, which also seems to have moved people to the extreme. Even the great-grandmother Hong, who seems to be the most honest person in that spoiled and swindled family, was also moved to panic. The funeral scene is like a meeting. Boys and girls are “birds and mice”, guests are happy because they can show off or are secretly happy when they can have a bit of property of the deceased. The chorus “Let’s go” seems to suggest something that evokes a large funeral but is filled with lousy and ridiculous habits.

“Let’s go…” also means that the shamelessness never ends, it persists in society forever. It does not disappear, but it seems to be changed in many different forms. And by the time the funeral stopped “just go” but also stopped to lower the grave, Vu Trong Phung seems to have given the reader two unique details, pushing the scene to bring this crowd to the climax. The first detail is the scene where Tu Tan retorts each person to do the moves, and at that time, holds the sad postures to let him… take pictures. The second detail mentioned is that Mr. Phan is horned, the most dishonest and dishonest person in this family and also cried to the point of fainting. However, we can see that in the midst of crying and crying, he himself quickly put a five-dollar bill into Xuan Red Hair’s hand for calling him “the horned husband” and worshiping at the same time. It is the indirect work that causes the old man to die. And these are really top-notch actors of life’s stories. With just those two remarkable details, the chapter on human hypocrisy completely and sharply closes.

With his masterful satirical art, writer Vu Trong Phung is really sharp as a knife. We can see behind the jokes, the scenes of satirical laughter and tears, and it is also the truth of life that keeps showing up, on top of which the two biggest things emerge that is the destruction of the world. rings and lies.

Red Number is considered the best work of Vu Trong Phung as well as of modern Vietnamese satirical literature. That satirical nature is not only reflected in the language, tone, and situation, but is also expressed most directly and sharply through the portraits of each character in the work in the excerpt Happy a funeral.

The story begins with the death of an old man – great-grandfather. It was a grandfather, father, and respected friend of an upper-class family. Thoughts of that death will cause unrelenting grief in the hearts of those who stay. But no, the death of the great-grandfather is the joy, the ultimate happiness of all descendants. Because the will on paper has now been put into practice, they will receive huge inheritances. It was in the midst of the bereavement’s confusion that they each jumped up in a different way, putting on a different face to express their grief in their utter happiness.

Great-grandfather Hong closed his eyes dreamily when he thought of the moment when he put on his pajamas, crouched on his cane, coughed and cried, letting people point: Wow, the baby is so old. . This is an opportunity for great-grandfather Hong to act in front of the crowd, an opportunity to show his filial piety to his father by organizing a huge funeral. Mr. Van Minh: Private joy mixed with shared joy. Mr. Van Minh’s joy is a high expression of the joy of the whole family: impatiently waiting for the lawyer to come to actually divide the fortune. Mr. Van Minh was also described in detail by Vu Trong Phung, writhing, scratching his head, and pulling his hair, but in fact, he did not know how to deal with red-haired Xuan, rather than worrying about organizing his funeral. ancestor. As for Mrs. Van Minh, his wife is happy to wear a modern pajamas, she is happy to show her face, because the latest fashion models she will use on this occasion to launch on the market, turning the funeral into a place of worship. show, announce the latest collection.

He said that he grew horns, was happy, and gloated when he knew the value of the horns on his head, because of it, he would enjoy a large part of his inheritance. That money is compensation for his honor. In the funeral cry Huh! The sound of Mr. Phan’s horns was continuously resounded, he cried and squirmed, so much so that he could not stand, it took Xuan Red Hair to help him stand up. Thought it was a very real and sincere pain, but the act of shoving money into Xuan Red Hair’s hand with a quarter-fold bill exposed the deceitful face of the horned Mr. Phan. That action also shows the scheme of a business cooperation with Xuan red-haired to make a profit.

As for Tuyet – the half spoiled girl is happy because she will be able to wear modern clothes, innocent clothes, half open and half open, a thin chiffon dress with a corset in it. armpits and half breasts – but with black trim, and wearing a pretty cap, a sad, romantic face that’s very fashionable in a family. The innocent clothes Snow wears to prove that she is not spoiled to the world, and the sad face is very romantic, thinking it is sadness due to the loss of a loved one, but in reality it is because she misses her lover – Xuan Red Hair is forever her Xuan has not yet appeared at the funeral. The outer appearance and reality inside were exposed by Vu Trong Phung’s use of bitter satire.

Uncle Tu Tan, when he heard that he died, he went crazy because his newly purchased camera was about to be put into use. While lowering the grave in sloppy clothes, he rebuked each person with a stick, bowed his head, arched his back, wiped his eyes, etc. It seemed that Mr. Tu Tan was like a great director to make the funeral play more painful. perfect part.

Min De, Min Toa are in a sad time because there is nothing to do. As sad as the merchants who were about to go bankrupt were hired to keep the funeral order, they were overjoyed. The rich monk was swaggering, sitting in a car, there was a crowd to go there to show his joy and pride in his achievement of overthrowing the Buddhist association. Great friend Hong: had the opportunity to show off all kinds of medals and beards. On the surface, they were all moved, but in reality, they were moved not because of pity for the dead, but because they saw the white skin in the chiffon shirt on Snow’s arms and chest. Van Minh’s friends, Ms. Hoang Hon and Ms. Tuyet, represent the youth: with a masked appearance, they are sad and serious, but in reality they love each other, laugh at each other, and comment. each other, denigrating each other… with vulgar words.

The appearance of Xuan Red Hair completed that great comedy picture. While the funeral was over, Xuan appeared with a huge wreath, and everyone was very touched by Xuan’s thoughtfulness, making the funeral more solemn. But the most special thing must be mentioned in detail the rhythmic coordination between Mr. Phan and Red Hair Xuan in the exchange and trade. The five-dollar piece of paper folded into quarters Mr. Phan pressed into Xuan’s hand, Xuan quickly held his hand so that no one would see a very professional and proficient action. The sale and exchange was successful and promises to have more big and successful trades.

The crowd was repeated twice as boldly, further deepening the shamelessness and heartlessness of that group. It goes on forever, never ends, just has different changes in form. With the art of satire and satire, master Vu Trong Phung has portrayed each portrait, unique and distinct, with sarcastic laughter. Exposing the false face of contemporary society.

Vu Trong Phung is a successful talented writer in the novel genre. Typically, the work “Red Numbers” has recreated the realistic picture of Vietnamese people and society in the first half of the twentieth century with ludicrous tricks, swindlers under the pen of criticism and profound satire. In which the most impressive is the excerpt “Happiness of a mourning family” located in chapter XV of the work, leaving a deep impression in the hearts of readers by the happy and joyful mood of the characters in the excerpt.

The mourning family that the great family, inside and outside, everyone is excited about, looking forward to that moment to flaunt and show off to satisfy their own desires. Although each person has their own joy, together they have contributed to creating a common mood of mourning and fun.

The first is the happy mood of children and grandchildren in the family. As usual, when a loved one dies, the parent must be in great pain, grief and mourning, but here all descendants from the elderly to the young, from the eldest son to the great-grandchildren are looking forward to it. the moment the great-grandfather died. And when that becomes a reality, joy flows in every vein, each person’s flesh “That death makes many people very happy” because it means that the other will will enter the practice period, not It’s not just a theory anymore.” Their happiness is the happiness of money, fame, and frivolous values, not the human love of blood relatives in the family for each other. .

As the oldest person in the family, he is the eldest son of the late Ancestor, while his family is confused, his father’s body is still lying downstairs, but great-grandfather Hong is still lying upstairs dreamily, imagining the scene ” The old man was wearing a pajamas suit, leaning on a stick, coughing, and crying so that people would have to point: “Wow, the baby is so old.” Normally, no one wants to be old, but it’s strange that great-grandmother has the desire to be called old. For him, organizing a funeral for his father was an opportunity to show off the large funeral that showed the rich wealth of the upper class. The old man was an unfilial son followed by all the descendants of a family with a lot of money but exhausted of love.

Mr. Van Minh, the great grandson of his great grandfather, went to study abroad in the West when he returned with the name of a social reformer. The one-step man brought the rogue, the red-haired Vampire Xuan to become the most meritorious person for society at that time. Before the death of his grandfather, he was happy because of the division of property, the first thing immediately after was to invite a lawyer to come and execute the will left by the great-grandfather. His condition on the outside is thoughtful, scratching his head, pulling his hair, his expression is confused, his face is always meditative, which is very suitable for the situation of mourning, but in reality, his stomach inside is wondering what to do with Xuan. How to be reasonable by two small sins and a big grace. The writer has exposed his false and inhuman nature by going deep into the character’s inner thoughts.

Mrs. Van Minh was impatient because she couldn’t wear a modern pajama outfit and a pretty hat, while mourning her family, she still didn’t forget the desire to promote the clothes of the Westernized tailor shop. The niece-in-law did not have the slightest sympathy for the deceased.

Equally happy is Mr. Phan’s grandson-in-law growing horns with joy overflowing in his heart, proud with invisible horns on his head that are so valuable. He got a few thousand thanks to those horns when his father-in-law whispered in his ear that he would give his daughter and in-law some more money. But at the last moment, when he said goodbye to the dead, he burst into tears. A laughable, ironic detail because the hypocrisy would not have realized the truth if he hadn’t put a quarter-fold five-dollar bill in Xuan’s hand to pay for the transaction of promoting invisible horns that cause harm. so the death for the great-grandfather.

As for Ms. Tuyet, her grandfather’s death was an opportunity for her to wear a thin flowery innocent clothes to reveal her white body inside, making the luxurious guests feel more moved than pity for the dead. This is also an opportunity for her to prove to the world that she has not lost her virginity with a sad and romantic face that matches the mood of her granddaughter who is sad for her grandfather’s departure, but she is actually her. sad because of the disappearance of his lover Xuan. The writer’s pen once again exposes a ridiculous face.

Mr. Tu Tan was overjoyed because he was about to use the prepared cameras, he was able to show his artistic talent to show himself as a professional photographer when he didn’t have any attachment or fear when he was in the grave. retorting one by one, or leaning on a stick, or bowing his head, or arching his back, or wiping his eyes like this, that…” to take a commemorative photo. It is a remarkable caricature, even with a small detail, but shows the irony of contemporary society.

Each person with just a few details depicts the indescribably happy mood of the unfilial descendants before the death of a loved one. The great-grandfather Hong’s family was like a miniature society with all the bad habits concentrated in the mourning scene. With family members in such a joyful mood, those who attended the funeral were just an excuse for them to express themselves. Red-haired Xuan with the grandiose appearance of the visit made everyone admire. The close friends of the great-grandfather Hong, the big-faced guests in the society, came to visit, but absolutely did not find in them a sigh, a sharing, but only saw an atmosphere. excited, excited. Dignitaries waited forever to have a funeral to show off the brilliant medals on their chests and the trendy beard styles on the chin above the edge. All of you were moved to tears not because of mourning for the dead but because of Miss Tuyet’s beautiful and revealing body. The people who go to the other party are full of elegant boys and girls, they come here as a place to gather, to discuss and whisper, they contribute to the commotion and bustle of the group by their act of flirting, laughing, denigrating. Jealousy, dating enough.

The mood of the characters in Vu Trong Phung’s writing page is so vivid, not many words are needed, just a few gestures deep into the heart of the monstrous people, they gather together to fully express themselves. faces in society are deceitful, inhumane and dehumanizing.

Through analyzing the moods of the characters in the excerpt, we can see the luxurious, non-human life of the elite. At the same time, it also shows Vu Trong Phung’s talent for portraying character portraits and sharp satire.