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bmarie82 's review for:
The Aspern Papers
by Henry James
This story was alright, it wasn't anything special. Inf fact, I would've given this book 2 stars were it not for the ending (which proved to be more redeeming than I would've thought. The bulk of the text is a bit draggy and the chief characters all seem vaguely unlikeable in their own ways; not utterly abhorrent or offensive, just irritating in their predictability and type-cast roles. The narrator is conniving and self centered, concerned only with getting the papers and even goes so far as to profess his intentions of making false love to Miss Tita if that's what it comes to. Miss Bordereau, while good having good intention, is only concerned with money and how much of it she can get. Miss Tita is probably the worst of all, being a silly naive girl trapped in a thirty-something spinsters body.
The initial plot, as I have mentioned is dull. Man covets object held by two women, man seeks to relieve women of object by any means necessary, one of the women falls in love with the man, no one comes out happy. The redemption I spoke of earlier is the manner of Miss Tita's revenge. He rebuffed her affections and so she destroyed the thing he held most dear. Put plainly Miss Tita is a righteous bitch and I love that. He tried to play her and in the end was dealt a devastating blow. Bravo Miss Tita, bravo.
The initial plot, as I have mentioned is dull. Man covets object held by two women, man seeks to relieve women of object by any means necessary, one of the women falls in love with the man, no one comes out happy. The redemption I spoke of earlier is the manner of Miss Tita's revenge. He rebuffed her affections and so she destroyed the thing he held most dear. Put plainly Miss Tita is a righteous bitch and I love that. He tried to play her and in the end was dealt a devastating blow. Bravo Miss Tita, bravo.