Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis

Yue Daiyun returned to Beijing in November. She felt that she learned a lot living with the peasants for those two years. Many students who had been declared to be rightists were being returned to the villages. Lao Tang met her at the university and took her home.

The next morning there is a meeting to determine her work assignment. Rightists are not given teaching assignments until they prove themselves. Yue Daiyun and Lao Shi will work writing commentaries on classical poems. Yue Daiyun is happy with her assignment. The students would use the commentaries in the revision of literary history.

Lao Tang's brother marry and the wife moves into the house with them. She is jealous of Yue Daiyun and her education. Life becomes more difficult, after the addition of their baby and a nurse. Yue Daiyun returns to teaching...