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A review by brontes
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland
3.0
As compared with Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn lacks a central question. It is more a rambling story that introduces the reader to a character than anything else. The language itself is nice, and there are smaller stories tucked within that have very interesting rising and falling action, they simply don't seem to hold together.
I might be tempted to be more generous, but I really felt at the end that Phineas did not deserve the love of so good, honest, and kind-hearted a girl as Mary Flood Jones, especially after he had treated her so poorly when he went off to London. I almost would have rather he married Madame Max Goesler, though she may well have deserved better too, and left poor, kind marry for a more honest and less ambitious man.
I might be tempted to be more generous, but I really felt at the end that Phineas did not deserve the love of so good, honest, and kind-hearted a girl as Mary Flood Jones, especially after he had treated her so poorly when he went off to London. I almost would have rather he married Madame Max Goesler, though she may well have deserved better too, and left poor, kind marry for a more honest and less ambitious man.