tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33553028.post5554498286420781382..comments2024-03-14T16:46:14.455-05:00Comments on Becky's Book Reviews: Barchester TowersBeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793618692608823102noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33553028.post-63353924999962621252017-04-07T09:27:00.694-05:002017-04-07T09:27:00.694-05:00Late in this novel, a poor clergyman’s wife and th...Late in this novel, a poor clergyman’s wife and the mother of fourteen children elucidates the lesson of her experience: "Oh, that's the way of the world, my dear. They all do just the same. You might just as well be angry with the turkey cock for gobbling at you. It's the bird's nature." Same with people. Trollope describes characters who act in less than ideal ways - Mrs. Proudie, Slope, and Charlotte Stanhope. With genial irony, he also implies the question, Can we imagine a world in which people don’t act ambitiously, graspingly, venally? And he asks similarly of the protagonists – Mr. Arabin, Mr. Harding – can we imagine meek push-overs who don’t act in soft, yielding ways? We can't have honesty without dishonestly, no generosity without greed, no relief without frustration. I think Trollope says basically we have to take life as we find it.Majorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05038437416575948282noreply@blogger.com