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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
Finished this during the Superstorm Sandy blackout. Hemingway is brilliant.
adventurous
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There’s nothing worse than an unresolved ending. How could Hemingway do this to me? How could he mislead me to an unsatisfying demise and leave me in the deep end full of pondering questions? Henry and Catherine had the perfect life; living in the “brown house in the pine trees on the side of the mountain” paints the beautiful scenery for their new lives together which shatters due to the loathsome ending. I was also incredibly displeased with Henry’s behavior at the end of the novel. He seemed to care little about his son’s death: “Maybe he choked all the time. Poor little kid. I wished the hell I’d been choked like that. No I didn’t” (327). I believed Henry had transformed into a more loving person due to his relationship with Catherine but now I realize Catherine is and will be the only person he cared about. Due to our lovely lesson on the string of consciousness, I saw many examples of this embedded into the text – a few paragraphs that I actually enjoyed. I liked being able to catch a glimpse of what was going on in Henry’s head while Catherine was in labor. His repetition of “she won’t die” on page 320 along with his questioning helped me relate to his immediate feelings of Catherine’s condition: realizing he lived to be with Catherine and love her more than anything. After finishing the novel, I overall enjoyed the descriptions of the scenes in the beginning of every chapter. This was very helpful since the chapters began to drag with conversation and unrelated ramblings that often got confusing to decipher.
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very slow paced and sad
This has to be one of my new favorite books. It was utterly beautiful :)
This book is not as good as some other novels, but it is worth reading. It might ring a little sexist, to put it lightly, but there are good parts when Catherine isn't around.
I hate the way Hemingway writes and depicts female characters. They have no arc and are simple one dimensional beings.