 In the final stage, the film is driven to the climax of sentiments, and it tries to tell the audiences that the fallen women are one of the fundamental causes of the tragic ending.In this film, the economic inequality in China is considered more as a moral issue, instead of as a societal issue.Zhang's infidelity is not so much an ethical aspect as a portrayal of the state of intellectual confusion, sway, escape, and transformation in the 1940s, so as to reflect the humanity and existence state of the intellectuals of this era in a deeper level.