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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
The obscure nature of characters make this novel a hell for sons and second son has problem moving on with other woman after the love of his mother for him, and ender son die because of disease after falling for gypsy woman but lives go on and problem become part of it
Review : this book is about a family living in quarter house which is best according to lady of the house but she felt cheated as man of the house , who charmed her, she think was rich man before marriage but her dreams broken after she got married , she have 3 sons, and when problem of drunkard father increased , they try to protect there mother on that mother thought , she can enclined towards her sons, and try to seduce elder son, but he move out and after one year got married to a Lady , but soon after he went back after Christmas and got health issues and the women he married ran away , later he died and mother try to seduce second son, he fall for her while younger one move out of house, and later second son announced , he can't find a proper lady to marry until her mom is alive and end up living a life of solitude and uncontented man. Writing of the author is modern thought with inappropriate aspects of love at that time.
Review : this book is about a family living in quarter house which is best according to lady of the house but she felt cheated as man of the house , who charmed her, she think was rich man before marriage but her dreams broken after she got married , she have 3 sons, and when problem of drunkard father increased , they try to protect there mother on that mother thought , she can enclined towards her sons, and try to seduce elder son, but he move out and after one year got married to a Lady , but soon after he went back after Christmas and got health issues and the women he married ran away , later he died and mother try to seduce second son, he fall for her while younger one move out of house, and later second son announced , he can't find a proper lady to marry until her mom is alive and end up living a life of solitude and uncontented man. Writing of the author is modern thought with inappropriate aspects of love at that time.
challenging
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-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
Why did I even pick this up? I found an old (1930s?) copy in real good shape at the Booksale, and knew it was an "important" book, so I grabbed it for $2.50. It had been sitting around on my physical " to read " shelf for awhile and was finally selected, as are so many of my choices, by perceived level of commitment. Its a small book, not very tall or thick, so i thought it would make a nice quick read. That must be some thin paper -- it turned out to be almost 500 pages of fine print :-)
I'm not sure what I was expecting, maybe something a bit more soap opera like? I wasn't reading it for scandal -- I didn't expect anything written 100 years ago to really surprise me in that way. But scandal seems to go hand in hand with soap opera, so i guess i had pigeon-holed based on that. But I was quite surprised at the depth of character exploration. This is not a story you read for plot. Nothing exciting happens. Things happen, they just aren't exciting. The central idea of the story is the debilitating mother-son relationship of the main characters. I found it to be quite well done in that the mother is portrayed as a complex character, with her own needs given an honest weight. She isn't just a caricature of an overbearing or smothering mother. Although the outcome of her laser focus on her son is disastrous, you are able to understand its source. Mind you, understand does not presume forgiveness.
As for the supporting characters: the love interests Miriam and Clara were a clever juxtaposition of black and white, angel and devil, Madonna and whore.... Neither of them satisfied Paul. Personally, I think he would have been a happy soul with some sort of blend of the two, and I'm not sure why I felt like the author was saying there was no one in the world for Paul. Does the author feel that women are one or the other, no continuum? Or is Paul thinking that?
But I think one of my favorite (in that I enjoyed the portrayal, not the person) was Paul's father. That was another deftly handled complex person that could have easily fallen into caricature but didn't.
Read this for thought, not plot. And be prepared to struggle a bit with dialect and outdated euphemisms. But go ahead and give it a try!
I'm not sure what I was expecting, maybe something a bit more soap opera like? I wasn't reading it for scandal -- I didn't expect anything written 100 years ago to really surprise me in that way. But scandal seems to go hand in hand with soap opera, so i guess i had pigeon-holed based on that. But I was quite surprised at the depth of character exploration. This is not a story you read for plot. Nothing exciting happens. Things happen, they just aren't exciting. The central idea of the story is the debilitating mother-son relationship of the main characters. I found it to be quite well done in that the mother is portrayed as a complex character, with her own needs given an honest weight. She isn't just a caricature of an overbearing or smothering mother. Although the outcome of her laser focus on her son is disastrous, you are able to understand its source. Mind you, understand does not presume forgiveness.
As for the supporting characters: the love interests Miriam and Clara were a clever juxtaposition of black and white, angel and devil, Madonna and whore.... Neither of them satisfied Paul. Personally, I think he would have been a happy soul with some sort of blend of the two, and I'm not sure why I felt like the author was saying there was no one in the world for Paul. Does the author feel that women are one or the other, no continuum? Or is Paul thinking that?
But I think one of my favorite (in that I enjoyed the portrayal, not the person) was Paul's father. That was another deftly handled complex person that could have easily fallen into caricature but didn't.
Read this for thought, not plot. And be prepared to struggle a bit with dialect and outdated euphemisms. But go ahead and give it a try!
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes