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46. He says this because he enjoyed causing pain for the headman while he tooth was being fixed. I think this label isn't correct, because it was only temporarily while he was venting his anger about the reeducation on the headman. There were better ways to do it, but no, he wasn't really a sadist.
47. The miller focused a lot on the scene that he saw as they were swimming and when the Little Seamstress was diving. He also realized that the young man was his 'interpreter' and would've been denounced had he been seen by someone else. Luo focused on the skills of the Little Seamstress and watching her swim. The Little Seamstress however, focused on the drama and the book, which shows the influence that Luo's reading had on her. Luo does not foresee any consequences of the too of them swimming in the lake together and did not think that anyone would see them and denounce him.
48. The narrator believes that he is a secret agent for Luo, but a part of him also wishes to become the Little Seamstress' boyfriend. He constantly returns to comparing scenes he had read from books with his current situation, such as him with a pistol and machine gun watching over her and bringing her across a desert to Luo.
49. The narrator is a cook, reader, laundry-doer, and manicurist of the Little Seamstress. He is tormented by the city youth who are jealous, and he dreams about it re-occurring when he is alone. In his dream, he is saved by the Little Seamstress who arrives, weeping.