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Boring heroine

posted 14 years ago by hizherz
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Nora is more or less a whiny , depressed, self-centered book character. Not likable at all. Her husband should have dumped her after the first few years of living with her morose arse.

[–] caseyfloresca 14 years ago

I think Caroline was supposed to be the more relatable and likable heroine. You're right about Nora, sort of; she was less proactive and more mopey than Caroline. But she was suffering with the death of her daughter, so I don't really blame her.

"Keep up with me, now"

[–] OneTiredMom 14 years ago

Hmm, I got a different "perception" from reading the book. Nora was basically "shunned" by her husband, emotionally anyway, after the birth of Paul and Phoebe. The book was more about David's emotional struggles, not Nora's.

[–] GaelinW 12 years ago

What I got was that David turned her that way. Her baby dies. She never gets to see or hold her. Then David (out of guilt) resists any attempt at closure. And later when she wants another child, he refuses. The impression I got was that basically he stopped having sex with her out of fear of making another "sick" child. And of course he ever explains any of that to her. And even before that scene she asks, "are you seeing someone else?" So he stopped having sex with her soon after the babies were born.

She essentially had a right to be whiny, depressed and ultimately self centered.

If you can't walk and talk/text at the same time, do the rest of us a favor and get out of the way.