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A review by factandfables
Unpunished: A Mystery by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.0
This is probably a 3.5 star for me.
I loved the ending (CPG has wonderful happy endings that I really find equally irresistible and implausible), but felt that the actual story was more about her message and not really about the story.
Overall, this fits perfectly into the work that CPG does - it is divorced from reality, and people behave in perfect toy ridiculous ways. But it’s not because she doesn’t understand the world, it’s that she is trying to write a world where women get to exist in a way that simply wasn’t possible at the time, and that leads to situations that feel contrived or utopian.
A fun read, and a fun exploration of genre from an author who usually focused on other things.
I loved the ending (CPG has wonderful happy endings that I really find equally irresistible and implausible), but felt that the actual story was more about her message and not really about the story.
Overall, this fits perfectly into the work that CPG does - it is divorced from reality, and people behave in perfect toy ridiculous ways. But it’s not because she doesn’t understand the world, it’s that she is trying to write a world where women get to exist in a way that simply wasn’t possible at the time, and that leads to situations that feel contrived or utopian.
A fun read, and a fun exploration of genre from an author who usually focused on other things.