A review by goldenqueen3
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

3.0

It's weird I absolutely hated this book in the beginning it was so boring and the narrator seemed to go on and on. I wasn't sure what the point of it was and I thought the story was predictable and I didn't even like the story I could predict. But then it slowly began to grow on me. The main character the vicar is inspiring because all these crazy horrible things keep happening to him and his family, at first he loses most of his fortune and has to move to the country to a small cottage and there not really poor they just have to lead a more simple life. Then his daughter is tricked into eloping with there landlord and her father the vicar goes after her and eventually finds her. She was tricked into a fake marriage with there landlord and is now ruined. Later in the book they find out that there landlord is going to marry someone else so the father confronts him and gets thrown in jail. But when I really started to like the vicar was when he started to read his sermons to the prisoners at first they just laugh at him but they eventually start to listen to him and he sort of helps them to learn how to have a better life. I just loved the perseverance of this guy I mean no matter what happens to him he never gives up, he finds good in every situation. He submits himself to God's will and has incredible faith through pretty much everything. This book was definitely a lot better than I was expecting it to be.