Find a foreign short story. The story is about a mill owner who is an old man and marries a young woman. The woman is greedy for the old man's property.

In the end, the old man died and the woman inherited the mill. However, the woman was also old at this time, so she found a young man to accompany her. What was this novel called? Who wrote it?

Answer 1

I recommend a foreign short story called " The Miller and His Lover."

The Miller and His Lover was about an old man named Tom. He owned a large mill, but his wife had passed away, leaving behind a young woman named Lily. Lily had always been eager to get Tom's property and status, so she maintained a lover relationship with Tom.

The relationship between Tom and Lily was very close at first, but as time went on, Lily began to realize that her feelings for Tom were not pure love. She gradually began to greedily pursue her own desires. She tried to seduce other men and became more and more indifferent to Tom until their relationship fell apart.

The ending of the story was that Tom left Lily and started his own business again. He made his mill stronger and began to make new friends. Lily left the city and returned to her hometown to start her own life.

The novel depicted a complicated love relationship and an old man's struggle between his desires and love. It also revealed the complexity of human nature and how greed and desire could destroy relationships between people.