"what Sister Carrie would have been if Carrie had more than two brain cells to knock together"
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: 2012-06-02 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.