Chapter 2 Summary and Analysis

At the classroom building, Yue Daigun sees posters attacking her and the literary magazine that she had her colleagues had proposed. She is being labeled a traitor. Eight or nine people speak out against her at the meeting. Her involvement in proposing the new literary magazine, Contemporary Heroes, seems to be the problem. People who she had caused problems for were now causing problems for her. Others were doing the politically expedient thing to secure or maintain their own positions.

Yue Daiyun sits there after the meeting wondering if some of the charges were true. She thinks about her wedding day and how she did not want expensive clothes or gifts. Lao Tang comes to walk her home. After lunch, she sits in her room thinking of the disgrace her parents will feel at her being denounced as a rightist. Her...