Identity, Pain, and Choice, the Functions of Memories in The Deep and Black-Eyed Woman

In the novels, The Deep and Black-Eyed Women, memories play an important role. They run through the main parts of the two novels and assume a pivotal role in revealing the characters’ identities, depicting their sufferings, and showcasing their choices. Based on this, from the perspectives of memory and identity, memory and pain, and memory and choice, this paper compares and analyzes how these two novels reveal the collective identity and individual identity of the characters through memory, how the pain represented by memory is displayed, and how the main characters in the two novels make choices in the face of remembering and forgetting.