Posted on 03/10/2017 12:28:18 PM PST by EveningStar
Now if only someone could photoshop Streep’s face onto John Quade’s.
Do you also object to The Scarlet Letter, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina?
I'm not surprised you would regard them as of a piece.
Adultery was not glorified in those novels.
They are far above Bridges in terms of literary value but that wasn’t the distinction you were making. Merely about adultery as a subject.
That’s not what critics at the time thought.
I didn’t make any distinction about anything, as far as your remark was concerned.
You were trying-—as usual-—to chide someone else about their lesser intelligence and breadth of understanding.
I only jumped in to comment on what I saw as the aptness of your high regard for hausfrau fantasy.
Both Emma and Anna paid a hard price for their foolishness. Francesca spent the rest of her life looking at her children and nice husband and sighing for a man she spent a weekend with. And what a wretched woman she was. Her husband brings her to America, give s her a softer, richer life than anything she’s ever had and she betrays him the first time he leaves in business.
I wasn’t chiding. I was curious why you thought that way. And as you note, the Ennui of the Domesticated Woman was a common theme then.
When the roles were reversed you got Fatal Attraction. So yeah kind of an uproar.
You’re not even talking to the right poster.
I didn’t say a damned thing about adultery.
Good lord, if that’s any indication of how well you read, no wonder you can’t tell the difference between bridges and train tracks.
No actually I was responding to the right poster. You were surprised I regarded the novels of a piece. The theme in common is adultery.
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