Is she a victim or an abuser? Is she stupid or just simply stuck in a role she can't get out of? Am I sympathetic to her or do I despise her? Is it a tragedy or a comedy? Could and should anyone love her? I was constantly trying to cast judgement as the book kept reminding me that I don't actually need to. The book is literally a portrait.Īnd as I was reading this, I was constantly thinking about this woman. The small vignettes are also disjointed, very rarely connected to each other, and although they are told in a chronological order, they shatter any semblance of a story. Bridge, it's your own verdict, not the author's. There is nothing to push you in one direction or another whatever you think of Mrs. I loved the fact that the chapters were ironic, but remained descriptive, without any judgement. Bridge, the wife of rich lawyer Walter Bridge in the 1930's America. It is made entirely of short chapters - more than 100 of them in a 246 page book - which describe little moments in the life of Mrs. It might sound strange to say this about a book published in 1959, but Mrs.
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