Up And Down
One of the fascinating things about Dream of the Red Chamber is the way that its characters create a stark contrast with each other.
Chapter 13, like many of the other chapters in this book, feels more like it is two separate chapters than a single whole. It started off with the untimely death of Qin Keqing, and ended with Wang Xifeng rising to a high level of power and authority.
And I think there’s something interesting going on here from a literary standpoint.
