Yet it is clear that Xiangzi, too, is meant to be an 'everyman', and by falling victim to 'individualism', the term Lao She uses to criticize him, he has contributed to his own downfall.
Instead of technical wizardry and precision passing, there was tightness as Brazil kept falling victim to Croatia's attacks down the sidelines. Then, in the 11th minute, disaster struck.
It sounds like the use of goats is confined to peripheral fields where weeds and brush could cause wildfires, so it's not like Googlers run the risk of having goats wander into their office buildings.
And of course, in the event that it turns out to be real, it will be the most important thing to happen to human beings since the invention of language.
But by the end her sufferings were horrible, her abdomen badly burnt by the radiation treatment, the pain from her multiplying tumours far beyond the reach of morphine.
The human body is so devoted to warding off potential starvation that in a society of plenty, innate weight-control mechanisms may harm more than they help.
If they lost their jobs, had health problems or got divorced, we could of course expect defaults. But they seldom walked away simply because house values had fallen.
"Raja cried for a while and was withdrawn, but eventually she began talking openly and Shared about what she had been through and what she was feeling," said Bordoloi.