1.2　Stupidity and Submission

　Stupidity is stupid, unreasonable, lacking in acuity, and humorous. However, submission is to accept what is given as unavoidable. That is, there is no help for it. It is difficult to avoid the current situation and inevitable to accept it. These differences in the scene of surrogacy of the couple Wang Zu and Xiao Shizi are explained in detail here.
　Neither Xiao Shizi nor Gugu are slightly mentally normal. Xiao Shizi believes that she can no longer give birth as she grows older. Although it makes sense to have a child by surrogacy, when Xiao Shizi shows the behaviour of a young woman wanting a child, it’s silly and humorous.
　From her husband Wang Zu’s point of view, a wife can fight for custody by surrogacy and loves the baby as her own child without giving up, even if it is decided in court. Even Gugu, who has been so verbally expressive about childbirth, has no remnants of what she used to be after she left. In such a situation, as Wang Zu can accept babies by surrogacy, we accept it. This achieves the equality of having children, and we have reached not only the acceptance of law but also
the equality of socialism.

花村嘉英（2022）「莫言の「蛙」でシナジーのメタファーを考える」より　translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura