Post by elliej84 on Nov 27, 2016 18:31:08 GMT
janetandjohn I realised yesterday that we did not talk bout this book, so I thought I would write a few of my thoughts down and see you if agree? Everyone else is welcome to comment as well, I need some help to clarify this book.
I couldn't decide if the main character Edna was depressed or being childish or maybe a bit of both. She was definitely naïve but that may have something to so with the time in which the book was written. She did not seem to suit motherhood or being a wife, although this seemed to change with the book as she realised she didn't have to be spoken to/treated in the way her husband and the time decreed. Which I suppose was the premise of the whole book - she awakened to this new more dominant woman, who wanted different things than she had or was allowed.
She found love with someone other than her husband and then when she didn't get her way she 'swam into the ocean' I was surprised at this and saddened that it couldn't have ended differently, with her being allowed a job and her own life. I felt that even though she thought she could do these things it was still a man that led to her decision at the end.
MrsMac does any of this make sense?
I couldn't decide if the main character Edna was depressed or being childish or maybe a bit of both. She was definitely naïve but that may have something to so with the time in which the book was written. She did not seem to suit motherhood or being a wife, although this seemed to change with the book as she realised she didn't have to be spoken to/treated in the way her husband and the time decreed. Which I suppose was the premise of the whole book - she awakened to this new more dominant woman, who wanted different things than she had or was allowed.
She found love with someone other than her husband and then when she didn't get her way she 'swam into the ocean' I was surprised at this and saddened that it couldn't have ended differently, with her being allowed a job and her own life. I felt that even though she thought she could do these things it was still a man that led to her decision at the end.
MrsMac does any of this make sense?
