The New Year’s Sacrifice is a holy ritual that takes place in the sensitive New Year period in China. The narrator, Lu Xun, is an educated individual who hopes for a change in Chinese society. Since Lu Xun was attacking social problems through his writings, he wanted to show us an example of an unfair treatment to women in China. Xiang Lin’s wife is the protagonist, a widow of two husbands. The New Year’s Sacrifices symbolically represent a country where woman’s with low social standing are discriminated against. Xiang Lin’s Wife finds herself driven mad by the combined forces of religion, feudal marriage, and the gullibility of her villagers. In addition, Xiang Lin’s wife was battling depression and loneliness the entire story because of the way the Chinese community viewed her as a widow. Throughout the story Xiang Lin’s wife was always trying to receive approval from the family she worked as a maidservant and the neighbors. Society always looked at her as below themselves. It was interesting to me how the novel “New Year Sacrifice” uses flashbacks to tell the story. Some of the themes mentioned in the story are Religion Vs. non-believers, superstition, women’s right and marriage practices. I found really interesting how this story does not have a happy ending like must of the stories that I have read. Also, I found it questionable how the protagonist who is in her twenties is never connected with a name in the entire story. Rather, she is only called the Xiang Lin’s wife, symbolizing ideology of women subordination to the male gender. In the story, we can notice how Xiang Lin’s wife is a hardworking woman and indorses honesty. In the end, nothing changes, Xiang Lin’s wife dies, never finding peace, while the villagers continue to live selfishly.