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A review by madsmacmath
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Everyone else is right: the third story is the best and reads like a novella. It also helps to go into it with a sense of Simone’s feminist existentialism and the knowledge that the second story is meant to be read stream-of-consciousness, as a monologue.
You hate each of the women at first. They seem stupid and one-dimensional. Who wraps their whole life around these men, their husbands and sons? And somewhere in each of the stories, it dawns on you: it’s you - or your friend, or your aunt, or your mother.
No one thinks they’ll be the woman destroyed until they already are.
You hate each of the women at first. They seem stupid and one-dimensional. Who wraps their whole life around these men, their husbands and sons? And somewhere in each of the stories, it dawns on you: it’s you - or your friend, or your aunt, or your mother.
No one thinks they’ll be the woman destroyed until they already are.