Two women, one child - are the main dramatis personae sprokurowanego by Edith Wharton. And even though a marriage is at stake, the men remain in the background - here are the most important male-female relationships. Envy, sacrifice, war of nerves, will also be taken as selfishness bonhomie. The source of emotion is not a candidate for a husband, but several years an orphan.
admit that, having in mind "The Age of Innocence," expecting another story about hypocrisy and konwenansach, while Wharton completely surprised me. Yes, these threads are present, but the key seems to motherhood - especially difficult here because concealed. History draws not only because of the drama, but also by well-delineated characters - main characters are women of flesh and blood, that convinces.
how Wharton writes, moreover, deserves special attention. The most striking of all, attention to detail - descriptions of the Interior and the costume is a veritable mine of information for designers and art historians. Equally enjoyable is the description of New York's upper class from the mid-nineteenth century - ironically, but rather the author aptly demonstrated the sphere of customs, which she herself knew, after the autopsy. Some sentences are small cacka: dowcipne, a zarazem wycyzelowane. Oto próbka:
He belonged to the cautious generation of New York gentleman who revered Hamilton and served Jefferson, who longed to lay out New York like Washington, and who laid it out instead like a gridiron, lest they should be thought "undemocratic" by people they secretly looked down upon. Shopkeepers to the marrow, they put in their windows the wares there was most demand for, keeping their private opinions for the back-shop, where through lack of use, they gradually lost substance and colour.
Dla mnie rewelacja.
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Edith Wharton 'The Old Maid' w http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300371.txt _______________________________________________________________________
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