Abstract：The manuscript Love Hate Table has been finished in 2016 as Eileen Chang' s newly posthumous work and been published in Taiwan and the mainland successively. It opens a new window for us to look back on Eileen Chang, it also provides important information for the study of her thinking about life in her old age. This paper makes a comparative study of Eileen Chang' s different expressions of the same events in her early fragments of prose Gossip and prose Love Hate Table in her old age. It aims at analyzing the conversion of Eileen Chang' s thinking about life in her old age, which mainly reflects in her understanding about death and the desire for returning to the family.

Keyword：Love Hate Table;old age;death;family;