This acting style is quite different from play-acting today.

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Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

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