Thank God!Does anyone but me feel guilty for hating her and feeling that she wasn't even worth raping cause she's such an annoyingly willing and even helpful victim!Thomas Hardy thinks she's a heroine!As a WOMAN I resent being told that abuse is a true woman's chane to prove her worth by being a martyr!Tess is less!(also the book's a snooze to read)
I also share your antipathy for The Red Pony & Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. We used to call "The Red Pny" "The Dead Pony" in the 7th grade when we had to read it. It in fact, turned me off of John Stienbeck for many years. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is just too angry for me, although it is probably well-written. I liked "Tess", though, although I do admit I watched it after seeing a movie of it. I think, though that if you can get through and like Wuthering Heights, which is a good story embedded in almost unreadable style.. you can get through and like "Tess".
what was it about Tess that you didn't like? just curious... (i started it myself like 4 years ago and got stuck half way through.)
It was all the abuse and pity, but no one stopping it or fighting. That is what gets me the most
Thank God!Does anyone but me feel guilty for hating her and feeling that she wasn't even worth raping cause she's such an annoyingly willing and even helpful victim!Thomas Hardy thinks she's a heroine!As a WOMAN I resent being told that abuse is a true woman's chane to prove her worth by being a martyr!Tess is less!(also the book's a snooze to read)
I also share your antipathy for The Red Pony & Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. We used to call "The Red Pny" "The Dead Pony" in the 7th grade when we had to read it. It in fact, turned me off of John Stienbeck for many years. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is just too angry for me, although it is probably well-written. I liked "Tess", though, although I do admit I watched it after seeing a movie of it. I think, though that if you can get through and like Wuthering Heights, which is a good story embedded in almost unreadable style.. you can get through and like "Tess".