Lin Daiyu's personality is extremely complicated. The formation of her character is related to her physical quality. She is sentimental and introverted. It is from this point that Cao Xueqin arranged many touching details and introduced this noble girl to readers. But on the basis of affirming this, he pays more attention to describing the development of Lin Daiyu's character along the road of real life. Lin Daiyu was born at the age of five, but she is a scholarly family. She studies poetry, and her parents love her like the apple of their eye. More than a year later, her mother died of illness. She was "too sad to wait on the soup and medicine, so she was timid, so her old illness recurred." She and her father Lin Ruhai "said goodbye to her grandmother with tears".

After arranging the objective environment for the formation of Lin Daiyu's character, Cao Xueqin described Lin Daiyu's character from Lin Daiyu's own point of view: "This Daiyu tried to listen to her mother and said that her grandmother was different from other families. These third-class domestic servants she saw today were well fed and clothed, not to mention that when she arrived at her house today, she should be careful step by step, always care about her, don't say a word, and don't take a step to avoid being taken in." After entering Fu Rong, "Xifeng hurriedly pulled Daiyu to sit in the first chair on the left, and Daiyu avoided it very much." After Grandmother Jia said, "You are a guest, you should sit like this", "Daiyu told me to sit down." "On the contrary, the maids brought it to you with a small tea tray. On that day, Lin's family taught her to cherish her health. Every time after dinner, she drinks tea for a while, so as not to hurt her spleen and stomach. Today, Daiyu saw that there were many rules here, unlike at home, so she had to be more easygoing and take tea. "

Obviously, when Lin Daiyu entered the Jia family, these very formal ideas were consistent with her sentimental character. On the same day, I pointed out the sentimental character directly for "just coming here will cause your brother's illness" and "I am sad here and I am crying myself". Fortunately, "Jia Mu is so loving that she sleeps, eats and lives like Baoyu, leaving her three granddaughters Yingchun, Tanchun and Xichun behind", "being close to Baoyu" and "sitting with colleagues every day and stopping at night" could have brought some changes to Lin Daiyu's tragic character, but suddenly a Xue Baochai came. As soon as she appeared, she sat down and gave both of them a bright look. The ups and downs of Cao Xueqin's brushwork set off the changes of Lin Daiyu's situation here.

The contradiction is not only manifested in the loss of the Jia family, "everyone says that Daiyu is inferior": more importantly, it lies in the close friendship with Baoyu, which has a crisis. This promoted the development of Lin Daiyu's character. She needs to be vigilant from time to time to prevent the outbreak of this crisis, and she has become more sensitive and suspicious. In action, it has also changed from "not saying a word, not daring to take another step" to "really Lin Jie, saying a word is more important than a knife". Baoyu saw the golden lock and was sitting side by side talking with Baochai when Daiyu waddled in. One Baoyu said with a smile, "Ouch! "I came at a bad time," Baoyu said goodbye to Lin Daiyu when he was going to school. "Why don't you say goodbye to your baby sister?" (the ninth time) Even if Baoyu came to Daiyu's room, Daiyu could not forget the "Sister Bao" who was sandwiched between them invisibly. She nodded and sighed: "if you have jade, people will have gold to match you;" People have Leng Xiang, so you don't have' warm incense' to match him? " (Back to 19) Faced with these questions, Baoyu never strikes back out of sincere friendship for Lin Daiyu, but always "folds up a hundred words to comfort him". But occasionally when I can't help it, I will say a few words that are almost complaining: "I can only play with you to relieve boredom;" But when I come to him by chance, I will talk about these gossips. " This makes the melancholy and withdrawn elements in Daiyu's character more exposed. "The more bored she is, the more she tears at the window." (the twentieth time)

The seriousness of the problem is that Baodai and Daiyu are getting older and have a rough understanding of personnel. Especially after being exposed to erotic songs such as Hui Zhen Ji, The Romance of the West Chamber and Peony Pavilion, Dai Yu and Yu Bao gradually realized the budding of sexual love. This raises the contradiction of "just playing with you" in their childhood to the struggle for love. People's jokes about Baodai's marriage becoming a reality in daily life have been objectively arousing Lin Daiyu to take this important event related to her life happiness seriously and be wary of anyone's intervention. For example, Xifeng once asked with a smile, "Do you still owe you for being a daughter-in-law for our family?" Pointing at Baoyu, he said, "Do you think the characters deserve it? Family is not worthy? How much furniture is not worthy of the foundation? What defiled you? " A dialogue on these occasions deepened Daiyu's sensitivity to the future relationship with Baoyu, awakened their deep love of God, and naturally sharpened the contradiction between Baochai and the essence of the problem.

Lin Daiyu, who lives under the heavy oppression of feudal ethics, has more mental shackles than anyone else. He is dependent on others and lonely and helpless. "It was also a helpless move." Moreover, Baochai, a strong enemy, not only has the "pearls as gold as iron" of the Xue family, but also has the support of the matriarchal families such as Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng in the Jia family, and there is also a golden lock that admires Baoyu. "Everyone says that Daiyu is not as good as Daiyu" and won the support of the masses in the Grand View Garden. Daiyu's only hope lies in Baoyu himself, who is "sometimes like a fool" and "eccentric". However, feudal ethics can't let Lin Daiyu tell Baoyu directly, which makes Lin Daiyu's already sentimental, withdrawn, crying and narrow-minded character more complicated. She had to use all kinds of twists and turns to test whether Baoyu's love was sincere. It is in this sharp and complicated contradiction that Cao Xueqin, a master of realism, wrote the conflict between truth and falsehood of Bao Dai, correctly grasped various psychological characteristics of Lin Daiyu under the influence of real life practice activities, and pushed her personality performance to another climax:

Baoyu has twice expressed his love for Daiyu in The West Chamber. One directly said to Daiyu, "I am a' sad sick body' and you are a' beautiful face'." Another time, in front of Daiyu, she said to Zijuan,' Good girl, if you have feelings, how can you make your bed? ""It's all a joke. Daiyu was very dissatisfied with Baoyu's indifferent attitude of showing love, and immediately "blushed with anger", "told her uncle and aunt to go" or "got out of bed while crying". This action of hers reflects her extremely complicated psychology under the persecution of feudal system. At best, she was dissatisfied with Baoyu's lack of sincerity in love, rather than refusing to accept love. This is obvious. Because I was angry for the first time, I only said a few words, "I snorted and smiled." The second time, Daiyu even said her thoughts behind her back, saying, "I didn't tell you!" " You don't ask it ... "Obviously," tell your uncle and aunt "is just to scare Baoyu, and there is no intention to really tell him.

What really worried Dai Yu was that Yuan Chun gave gifts to everyone in Jia's family. Baoyu and Baochai got the same thing, while Dai Yu got the same thing as Yingchun and Chunchun. Daiyu was worried that Baoyu "met his sister and forgot her sister." In fact, Baoyu did see Baochai's "snow-white arm, which stopped her jealousy" and made her look like a "foolish goose". No wonder Daiyu wants to "love more". At this point, Cao Xueqin's psychological description of Baodai, especially Dai Yu, is extremely profound. In the 29th novel, there is such a passage:

Then Lin Daiyu thought, "You naturally have me in your heart. Although there is a saying that "gold and jade are relative", do you value this heresy more than me? I often mention this' golden jade'. As long as you know that you are ignorant, you can see that you are taking me seriously and have no such heart. Why are you worried when I only mention' Jin Yu'? You know you always have that' golden jade' in your heart. When I mention it, I am afraid that I am oversensitive and deliberately anxious, which makes me feel at ease. " Baoyu thought, "Anyway, I'm fine. As long as you are free, I am willing to die for you. Whether you know it or not, I can see from my heart that you are close to me, not far from me. " At this moment, Lin Daiyu thought, "Just take care of yourself. I care about myself. Why do you need to lose yourself for me? I didn't know you lost me. I can see that you didn't tell me to be close to you, but deliberately told me to stay away from you. "

These repeated and complicated psychological contradictions often lead to many disputes between them. Lin Daiyu's tragic image of "blushing, crying, sweating and being as timid as a mouse" reflects the hard road taken by a noble and good woman living under the cruel feudal dynasty to pursue marriage freedom and personality liberation, and the price of blood and tears she paid. Although her strength is so weak, her sad, sentimental, lonely and melancholy character is unified with the image of a rebel who refuses to be quiet at all times.

Cao Xueqin, a great writer, did not stop there in his realistic brushwork and character writing. It is worth writing a great book. After the thirty-second time, Cao Xueqin unexpectedly made the tragic protagonist Daiyu, who was sad, suspicious and narrow-minded, suddenly take a turn for the worse. For a long time, Daiyu became cheerful. On some specific occasions, she even replaced doubt with trust, jealousy and doubt with frankness, and sarcasm with optimism and humor. Of course, during this period, she felt sorry for her life because she was in poor health and had no relatives to rely on, but in general, the big stone that had been entangled in her heart was finally put down temporarily. This is a clear answer to the love test with Baoyu, and the contradiction with Baochai has obviously eased.