And so she was torn with this sense of duty and her own reservations of having children. She struggles a lot with her feelings toward having kids, and her aptness (or lack of) for being a mother. It’s not in your face, preachy feminism, but it is indisputably there. Was Kevin always like this? Was he born this way? Or is it all Eva’s fault? Was she a bad mother?Įva is such a poster girl for feminism without her being a poster girl for feminism, if that makes sense. nurture was perfectly intervowen into the story. The biggest debate of psychology, the debate of nature vs. I find that her recounting of her son’s life as a way of her coping with the thing that happend was masterfully done. But, she is a very relatable one, and I was with her and rooting for her and felt sorry for her throughout the novel. I personally don’t like Eva, I don’t think that she is a likable character. I really love how this novel was handled. And it’s great that I forgot some of the details, which allowed them to make a full blown impact on me. I watched the movie ages ago, and wanted to read the book ever since. This is one of those books that will sit with you, linger in your thoughts even for a while after you’re done with it.
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