Thanks to the Cultural Revolution, Wang's math education didn't go past multiplication and division, and she never even touched physics, chemistry, or biology. "Literature is the one area of my education in which I've gone beyond what I learned in elementary school."
而現實中的王安憶，因為文化大革命，使得她的數學只學到四則運算，而物理、化學、生物等等，則是一無所知，「在我所有的知識中，超越了我所受的小學教育的，唯有文學了。」