《雷雨》的成功，很大程度上取决于作品成功地塑造了周朴园这个残忍、专横、冷酷、虚伪的封建资本家形象，这是大家公认的，笔者也甚为赞同。周朴园这个封建资本家，对工人表现出资本家的贪婪、无耻、凶残，对家庭表现出封建家长的冷酷、自私、专横，都无不令人深恶痛绝。... The success of “Thunderstorm” depends to a large extent on the work’s success in shaping the image of Zhou Puyuan’s cruel, arbitrary, ruthless and hypocritical feudal capitalist. This is recognized by all, and I’m very much in agreement. Zhou Puyuan, a feudal capitalist, showed the greed, shamelessness, and brutality of the capitalists to the workers. It was all hateful for the family to display the coldness, selfishness, and arbitraryness of the feudal parents. ...