2019年2月3日日曜日

A Domestic Dilemma by Carson Mccullers

The description of Martin's phycology is vivid. I can understand how he is tormented by his wife's intoxicated behavior. But I don't see any reason to attempt to kill his wife. He apparently tries to kill her because he forsaw the difficulties his children would face in the future as the writer says, "... his wife was a dissolute woman. Dissoute. And he and his children were bound to a futrue of degradation and slow ruin."
His motivation to kill his wife is not persuasive enough.

The comentator says in the Interpretation section that "If the story is successful, we must be made to feel that Martin and Emily are believable and that their actions and thoughts, including Martin's final shift in feeing  toward his wife, are true to this pair of people would do and think and feel.

A lesson in fiction writing:
The writer should not forcibly bend the natural development of the story to suit to his intention. 筋を無理に曲げない

 

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