The Desolate Color of Life——On the Hidden Meaning of the Image Groups in Zhang Ailing's Novels

With the desolate aesthetical meaning of such traditional images as the moon,wind and rain,mirrors,etc,Zhang Ailing endowed her characters' destiny with a color of desolation.Though portrayed realistically,these images contain dense subjective colors and lyrical meanings,and realize the poetry of psychological description of the characters.The images harbor the writer's experience,interpretation and understanding of life,and display the psychological state of Zhang Ailing's.