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Mildred Pierce
by James M. Cain
I started reading Mildred Pierce as soon as I'd finished watching the HBO miniseries, which invests much more subtleness in the characters than the book. I'd put Mildred Piece in my extremely thin pile of "the movie was better than the book". Well, technically not a movie, but you got the idea.
The manicheistic soap formula is there: flat characters - exclusively good or evil, which makes you anxiously root for the first and hate the second with every inch of your body. If there's some depth in a character, it has to be Mildred: determined, smart, independent, diligent! And yet so gullible and obsessed with her daughter, it's tiresome - no one can be as stupid as Mildred is facing Veda or giving money to Monty...
The manicheistic soap formula is there: flat characters - exclusively good or evil, which makes you anxiously root for the first and hate the second with every inch of your body. If there's some depth in a character, it has to be Mildred: determined, smart, independent, diligent! And yet so gullible and obsessed with her daughter, it's tiresome - no one can be as stupid as Mildred is facing Veda or giving money to Monty...