Here, however, Huang has written about a different sort of senior citizen, one who carries within himself a traditional wisdom uncorrupted by modern education.
不過在這篇小說裡，黃春明寫出了另一種類型的老人。他們的年紀讓他們成為舊時代、未受現代教育衝擊改造前的傳統智慧的承載者。