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jordanh 's review for:
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
I don't really know why men think they should be writing books about the female experience. Then or now, it makes no sense to me.
I liked the character of Isabel in a lot of ways but like I hate that this woman who everyone describes as independent and strong-willed, who says many times that she's never going to get married and then she gets married?? To THAT guy??? Disappointing. I knew she was going to get married obviously because this is a book from the 1800's I would have expected nothing else, but I'm still disappointed.
Also why is everyone in this book such yappers? They can all just go on and on and like...this isn't how people talk in real life, I refuse to believe it's even how people talked in real life back then. Like just going on and on and on, even when it makes no sense to keep talking like they're soliloquizing. Big rambles like that only make sense in play format, not in novel format.
This would have been much better if it was like 200 pages shorter
I liked the character of Isabel in a lot of ways but like I hate that this woman who everyone describes as independent and strong-willed, who says many times that she's never going to get married and then she gets married?? To THAT guy??? Disappointing. I knew she was going to get married obviously because this is a book from the 1800's I would have expected nothing else, but I'm still disappointed.
Also why is everyone in this book such yappers? They can all just go on and on and like...this isn't how people talk in real life, I refuse to believe it's even how people talked in real life back then. Like just going on and on and on, even when it makes no sense to keep talking like they're soliloquizing. Big rambles like that only make sense in play format, not in novel format.
This would have been much better if it was like 200 pages shorter