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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
mi primer encuentro con sylvia plath y me sorprendió!! voy a seguir leyendo
sad
tense
fast-paced
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
A color-drenched train ride takes our protagonist, Mary, north. As Vashti Bunyan sings: “Traveling north, traveling north to find you.” Mary doesn’t know what she’ll find—only that she has to leave. In this rediscovered early work, Plath imagines not a descent, but a detour: a girl who refuses the track laid before her. Mary is railing against determinism, and she takes the blue pill.
Kinda went over my head at first but pretty sad on the second read
It's a Sylvia Plath story with a happy ending. That alone deserves 5 stars.
There's a lot you could draw from this, Plath always gets you thinking. Overall what really stood out is the character's decision to go from apathy to autonomy over the course of her unstoppable train ride. Perhaps it's a metaphor for our lives, growing up, choosing our futures; we can either be pushed along with the current or we can pull that emergency lever and try to take control.
