Comments for The Persephone Forum http://thepersephoneforum.co.uk Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Persephone Book No 26: Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell by bookssnob http://thepersephoneforum.co.uk/2012/06/01/persephone-book-no-26-brook-evans-by-susan-glaspell/#comment-22379 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:17:03 +0000 http://thepersephoneforum.co.uk/?p=2115#comment-22379 What a wonderful post, and I am going to do my best to get hold of the film of Trifles you mentioned. I love Susan Glaspell’s writing and am shocked that she has been left largely unpublished and unacknowledged in the 20th and 21st centuries when her novels are so spectacularly good. I remember reading Fidelity and having to take regular breaks because I was just so overwhelmed by how raw and painful her prose is.

I think what touched me most in Brook Evans was the strained mother-daughter relationship. Brook only comes to an understanding of her mother after she dies, and has no way to make amends or repair their relationship – that really broke my heart. Glaspell’s sensitive portrayal of these two women and their failure to understand one another is absolutely outstanding.

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