1000 Acres
Car Land Er Son (lost_hopes@hotmail.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
>Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 12:04:04 -0500 (CDT)
>From: bethany edstrom <bethanyedstrom@hotmail.com>
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: I've been trying to learn
>Message-ID: <19991009170404.67606.qmail@hotmail.com>
>Does this matter to your reading of the novel? At least for me, I would
>have
>gotten very tired very early on of the "boo hoo, my daddy abused me" plot
>if
>I hadn't been so interested in the Shakespearean parallels and in the way
>Smiley makes certain elements of _Lear_--madness, betrayal, poisoning,
>etc.--work plausibly in this late-20th century setting. Yes, feminism can
>be
>tiresome too, but this novel, at least in my opinion, seems to transcend
>mere feminism to offer a plausible and engaging alternative reading to a
>
>Bethany
>
Thanks. And yeah, its feminism really isn't a problem. It's a
decent book.
-Carl
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