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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My favourite stories from this short collection were 'Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland', 'A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud' and 'Wunderkind'. The eponymous story is perhaps the closest to the style of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in its gothic strangeness, only its message, or lack of one, is more mysterious. 'Wunderkind' too is an anti-climax, although with a vivid and intimate narrator. But 'Madame Zilensky' and 'A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud' both had frisson-inducing climaxes about, respectively: the sadness and necessity of fictions and delusions; and an armchair philosophical "science" that seems to underpin the whole of the book -- that we should start loving what is small and work our way upwards, because, paradoxically, the most difficult thing in the world to love is a human being, or more specifically a woman... I observe only (as opposed to criticise) that McCullers' women are I think generally far more pathetic and affecting and intimately portrayed than her men.
dark
reflective
sad
tense
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
dark
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There were two stories here that I really liked; the Sojourner and a Domestic Dilemma. The rest were either fine or uninteresting to me, so not a great success as a whole in my eyes. I'd be interested to read some of her longer works though.
Me han gustado más los cuentos posteriores que la historia principal. Me encanta el título, de los más bonitos que recuerdo.
3.5. Honestly almost a 4, but mostly just because I love Carson and not because the book was particularly interesting