Maybe it's due to the changes in qualities desired in women, but reading the book I always thought Marian was far more appealing that Laura, I think it's kind of sad that in the book she ends up deciding to spend her whole life alone so she never has to be parted from Walter and Laura.
Marian proves herself intelligent, resourceful, has (according to Hartright) a extremely sexy figure and only 'flaw' seems to be the darkness of her skin, a lack of the vacant gaze considered feminine and the possession of a moustache which a razor could easily fix.
In our era, Laura comes off as boring, weak-willed, childlike and vapid.
Throughout my first reading of the book I was expecting Laura to die and Marian and Walter to end up together.
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