Okay, I'm surprised by that.
May. 31st, 2012 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Wow, I'm the only vote for The Custom of the Country in the previous poll? Poor Edith Wharton. That is a *great* book, y'all - what Sister Carrie would have been if Carrie had more than two brain cells to knock together. TBH, I've never figured out why, what with the current fashion for scheming, bored, rich, social-climbing housewives, it hasn't been made into a movie.
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Date: 2012-06-01 07:12 pm (UTC)i regret to inform you i never read, or even remember hearing of, sister carrie.. obviously i have my reading list for the summer
i read virology novels, and mysteries...and SF...so i likely missed these
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Date: 2012-06-02 06:47 am (UTC)I've never heard of The Custom of the Country, but now I'm moved to try it out, because PLEASE YES. I trudged through Sister Carrie in ninth grade ranting that there was no reason for her to end up in any of those situations if she had any remotest amount of Not Utterly Stupid. It made me lose trust for awhile in men's ability to write a female protagonist.
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Date: 2012-06-03 12:54 pm (UTC)Custom of the Country was written by a woman. And that does make all the difference. Like Austen, Wharton subverted the idea of the woman as sweet and helpless.