I actually didn't much like it when I read it as a teenager, but when I came back to it as an adult, I was blown away, and I really think it gets richer the older I get.
One little detail that I am especially appreciate these days is that Tenar's son turns out to be not a great person. She has a daughter she raised who is a good person and loves her, but then this son who lacks in gratitude and integrity, even though Tenar presumably invested as much in him as she did in her daughter. To me, it's an important sketch of the way in which societal conditioning of men can be such a powerful force.
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I actually didn't much like it when I read it as a teenager, but when I came back to it as an adult, I was blown away, and I really think it gets richer the older I get.
One little detail that I am especially appreciate these days is that Tenar's son turns out to be not a great person. She has a daughter she raised who is a good person and loves her, but then this son who lacks in gratitude and integrity, even though Tenar presumably invested as much in him as she did in her daughter. To me, it's an important sketch of the way in which societal conditioning of men can be such a powerful force.