[ SECRET POST #1815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1815 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 41 secrets from Secret Submission Post #259.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Dashwood does seem to be all right, though you didn't see that much of her or her parenting. And I will say that it seems like Catherine Moreland's parents were good parents, though that was part of the point of the book -- that she wasn't a dramatic heroine from a Troubled Family.

And yeah, I do understand what you're saying. Her treatment of the Musgroves is very harsh, and it's not a personality flaw to love and care for someone who is hurting you. It's human nature.

I think the "dead one is a saint" thing is probably on the money. And does happen, and it the kind of thing Austen probably couldn't stomach. And yet I see what you mean, completely.

I'm really sorry to hear about your brother and your mother, by the way. That sounds really rough.

[(Anonymous)]

I know this is a really late comment, and you probably won't read it, but in case you do, it's ok. I didn't mean to bring out my personal baggage for sympathy so much as a disclosure of bias. This aspect of Austen's writing happened to hit a personal button that was really jarring from me.

Don't get me wrong, she is one of my very favorite writers ever, but at times I'm disturbed by a specter of that omniscient, morally superior narrator who can be so confident on the Judgment she passes out to each of her characters.

At other times, I wonder just what she had been through, especially in regards to experiences with her own parents.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Not sure you will see this comment either, but it's fine, I didn't feel like you were doing that. I just felt like saying something, since really it must have been rough for your mom and you to deal with that. And I had a friend who went through something very similar with his brother, so it reminded me of that.

Her narrators are definitely like that. Sometimes it's fun when they're delivering barbs about characters we're not supposed to like anyway, and sometimes it can be uncomfortable.

I wonder about that too, except I thought I'd always heard she got along all right with her family -- but maybe that's more her sister than her parents that I'm thinking of. Considering I'm a fan I don't know that much about her life, to be honest. I remember hearing about some awful sarcastic remarks she made in one of her letters and feeling like "Wow, she really could be nasty!" Though I suppose I've made a few remarks myself that wouldn't stand up well if someone decided to publish them after I died.