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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
While the lack of chapter breaks still caused some difficulty (as in Robinson Crusoe) I found this narrative easier to follow. I found Moll to be a very sympathetic character, not nearly as wicked as she (and the society in which she lived) made her out to be. From the time she was born, the deck was stacked against her by a society which provided very few opportunities for women to support themselves; she was taken advantage of by unscrupulous men (yes, almost exclusively males). Twice husbands who would have been able to provide for her to some degree passed away leaving her with nothing. Another husband astonishingly turned out to be her half-brother - I mean, what are the odds?! She was so often alone and friendless. She mostly did the best she could with the curveballs she was thrown.
One part that didn't sit well with me, though, was her children. She had several children by her different husbands, several of them died, but excepting the one son in Virginia, we never find out what happened to those children! And that just kills me! She expressed her sorrow at parting from one (with her Lancashire husband), but other than that she seemed almost unemotional about her children until she meets up with her son/nephew in Virginia again.
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One part that didn't sit well with me, though, was her children. She had several children by her different husbands, several of them died, but excepting the one son in Virginia, we never find out what happened to those children! And that just kills me! She expressed her sorrow at parting from one (with her Lancashire husband), but other than that she seemed almost unemotional about her children until she meets up with her son/nephew in Virginia again.
For more book reviews, visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.