mamasquirrel 's review for:

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

4.0

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Someone else mentioned that this book was impossible to put down, no matter how devastating it became and that is exactly how I felt. At the beginning I did not like Isabel Archer's arrogance but by the end I pitied her. She was just as much imprisoned by the institution of marriage as Pansy was caught by the father/daughter relationship. If only Isabel hadn't been so arrogant about her choice of spouse at the beginning, she would have led a much happier life...