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A review by steventhesteve
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
4.0
I added this to my shelf because I was fed up of it being referred to in whatever Victorian novel I was reading and not knowing what it was.
I quite enjoyed this satirical tale of respectability and niceness. I got a lot of the same feelings from the diary of a nobody, as the main character is so naïve and yet thinks so well of himself and others.
I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one who thought Olivia got the short end of the stick when Goldsmith was handing out happy endings... You thought you'd married a dashing young man who turned out to be a scoundrel? Well it turns out you have, but at least you're only stuck in it until one of you dies, and you'll hold the purse strings! Yay!
I quite enjoyed this satirical tale of respectability and niceness. I got a lot of the same feelings from the diary of a nobody, as the main character is so naïve and yet thinks so well of himself and others.
I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one who thought Olivia got the short end of the stick when Goldsmith was handing out happy endings... You thought you'd married a dashing young man who turned out to be a scoundrel? Well it turns out you have, but at least you're only stuck in it until one of you dies, and you'll hold the purse strings! Yay!