/lit/ - Literature

A lot of dim-witted, gay males like this book. I've pretty much avoided it for that reason.

It's about some chick having an extramarital affair (and her first orgasm,) right?

>>2614425
That sounds awful. I was going to buy it just so I could cover most of the classics, but now that I know that I will just re-read this instead

>>2614421

No, fuck you. Good book.

>>2614435
>>2614425

OP here. This book is just about some fucking bitch named Edna. Her husband provides her with disciplined kids, a mansion, infinite moneys, infinite free-time, tons of dinner parties, and everything she ever wanted. (This takes place in the 19th century.)

This apparently isn't enough for her, and she cheats on him thoroughly. She has several affairs, essentially abandons her husband who still works constantly through all of this, and she just takes a huge metaphorical shit on their relationship. She fucking weeps for days and gets depressed when one of her young men who she is having an affair with leaves for Mexico because, holy shit, she's ruining a perfectly good relationship, and this young man is in fact NOT a socially-inept autist and realizes that's "not good."

So the wife fucking kills herself.

It's technically about some huge awakening of the female mind or some shit, but man, this book is absolute trash. She drowns herself in an ocean not because she feels awful that she cheated on her husband, but because she couldn't continue to cheat on her husband because this young man isn't a total douchebag.

Oh yeah, and her drowning of herself is portrayed as heroic, and is a metaphor for her freeing herself from life's bonds. The bonds of a perfect life, with everything provided for her.

Fuck this book.

>>Fuck this shit.

All of that damn literature we could soak up, and the schooling system had to force this beast upon us. Shame on whoever named this a 'classic'.

Thank you for bearing my rant.

>>2614442
I couldnt agree more.
Yeah but still the book is also the best example of realism writing.
>mfw flaubert actually details the light coming through under a door

But yeah Anna Karenina is a WAY better book.

>>2614442

The book is part of the modernist tradition. Edna dissatisfaction with her husband stems from a lack of control and meaning in her life.

Her social situation imposes a set of strict expectations. Unwilling to succumb to these expectations, she instead chooses to pursue a life of creativity. She is ostracized as a result. Feeling trapped within gender, she chooses what she thinks is the best option.

It is not a positive end. Instead, it calls on the reader to change norms that repress individuality and lead to such unfortunate conclusions.

tl/dr: this is what feminists actually believe.

>>2614461

She may have been ostracized for her love of art, but come the fuck on. She willingly entered a marriage at a time when being a housewife was fucking expected. No one got married without knowing that. It even says in the book she did it to become secure, and "anchor herself to a real life."

She had everything, and everything wasn't enough. So she kills herself because she can't take having a perfect life.

People doing terrible things in literature is classic, anon.

>>2614473

She had what others wanted her to have. She took the path of least resistance. She did not have an identity, and she only discovers a sense of self at the beginning of the novel. Yes, she agreed to marriage. She then decides that she cannot live that way (as many do now), but she had no other legitimate ways of providing for herself.

She can't take having a life without meaning.

ITT butthurt 17 year-olds barely passing AP English III

It's not bad by any means, and I'd say it's a very worthwhile read for the length. You can get through it in 2 days, tops.

I think i missed the part where she actually dies. (I mean I think she did personally, but there is an argument to be made that she didn't actually drown). Also, women who go against the grain, especially in literature around the turn of the century, have to die. Name a book where the protagonist doesn't die if she's a chic in this time period. OP, its not a bad book because something happened in it you didn't like. Was the writing flawed? Were the ideas not presented in a way that allows us to ask timeless questions?

I didn't fucking like 1984 for shit because of how it ended, but that doesn't mean its not a good book. Does good mean like here? clarify. Also, prove she died nigger.

This thread has convinced me to read the book.

I think you said all that needed to be discussed OP.