Woman Wang Character Analysis

I chose to read and write about this book out of curiosity, how did Woman Wang die? How can this "novel" be a historical work? I opened the book expecting to see the whole life of Woman Wang, and I was wrong. As Spence has commented "… she has been to me like one of those stones that one sees shimmering through the water at low tide and picks up from the waves almost with regret, knowing that in a few moments the colors suffusing the stone will fade and disappear as the stone dries in the sun. But in this case the colors and veins did not fade; rather they grew sharper as they lay in my hand, and now and again I knew it was the stone itself that was passing on warmth to the living flesh that held it." (J. D. Spence, "Death of woman Wang") How can a small stone that has been lost in the ashes of time trigger such an outburst of emotion? Has the life of Woman Wang been so special? No, she was too normal, too unnoticeable and too much like an ant that was meant
Back into the book, it was not until the second last chapter did Woman Wang came into our sight, before going into details about Woman Wang, Spence showed us how little choices Woman Wang had at that time, between the social expectations put on her and her own destiny, certainly, running away was a choice that people not even dare to think about. Under the pressure the society had put on them, women at this time began to feel numb, they were unable to fight their tragic destinies. They even lost the love for life, as the book recorded, most of the women biographies were about women who committed suicide in order to avoid being shamed. The idea of "It is not a big deal to starve to death, but losing purity is!" was commonly seen in women at this time. Morally speaking, these women lost their characters and "Desperation" is the word I found proper to conclude how women view themselves at this