by Elizabeth Gaskell
I decided to try her other books since I enjoyed Wives and Daughters. This book was okay. It took me until the end to figure out what it was missing, and then it hit me. In this book and in Wives and Daughters the female protagonists spend the largest part of their story without the man that they fall in love with. They think about the man, and the man might think about them, but largely their stories play out separately. North and South was hugely that way. They banter in the beginning; he declares his love, then they separate until the last two chapters of the book. While Pride and Prejudice had a similar hate to love relationship, the main characters were forced to interact. This interaction is what I enjoy, thus this book was only okay. Just as they were on speaking terms again, the book ends.
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