How does the writers portrayal of life in a particular community help to explain what happens in 'The Tall Women and Her Short Husband' and 'The Young Couple'?
            
             Within both stories the community plays the part of acting as the spectators of a show. They interact when required and act as a unit to either defend or destroy a couple.
            
             Within 'The Tall Women and Her Short Husband' the community has a fickle nature. They are polite and innocent to begin with then become more intrigued throughout the story till it reaches a climax at the struggle meeting. After the struggle meeting there interest dies as they discover all there evidence was false.
            
             The reader is able to see that the couple intrigues the community when Feng Ji-cai uses a rhetorical question 'What had brought such a pair together'; this shows what the community want to find out. The community are under the influence of The Tailors Wife and follow due to crowd mentality.
            
             The way in which Mr Ji-cai never uses the couples first names suggests that the community has never taken the time to get to now them they are always referred to as 'the couple' or 'Mrs Tall and Mr Short' the reader never discovers their names.
            
             The community are extremely judgemental when they discover the amount of pay that Mr Short receives and believe that is why Mrs Tall married him. This can be seen when Ji-cai says 'poor Mrs Tall was a money grabber'. The community cannot face the reality that the couple may love each other.
            
             The community acts on no evidence. This can be seen on several occasion one of which is when Ji-cai says 'the manuscript which no one had ever seen' this shows that the community is looking for a person to blame. Also the way that Ji-cai puts 'manuscript' in inverted commas suggests that the piece of paper does not exist, and that the writer does not believe in...