Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (paragraph 8)

When the old miller sees Luo and the seamstress at the pond swimming it seems that he is comparing the seamstress to a bird in that she is free and graceful diving off of the rocks. At the end of his section he says that Luo is lucky that only he, the old miller, had seen him. The old miller doesnt care that Luo lied in order to get the songs out of him because he is a more considerate, kind, old man than the authorities. It is different how the author chose to write the story this way, I think he did it because he wanted the reader to know what was happening in the lives of the other main characters, even though the narrator was not witnessing the same events. In Luo's section he seems to be very proud of himself for making the little seamstress more modern by teaching her how to swim properly and not doggy paddle. I think his role as the modernizer is going to his head and he is not considering the consequences of these changes that he is making to the seamstress. Luo's key ring is the only piece of his past in the city that he still has, like a link to modern culture. It is like Luo has the seamstress trained to fetch the key, like he is training her to think and behave more modern. I think when they loose the keys in the pond, it symbolizes change. Immediately following the incident he finds that his mother has become ill and he has to go see her.