So, when I sat down to actually try writing this blog post earlier this week, I ran into a real block with Alice, so I decided to change my primary text to one that I haven't written on before and that I'm excited about exploring - Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger. This review from the NYT does a pretty good job of summarizing the story for those who aren't familiar. For my "blurb," I've excerpted the last paragraph here for the interesting way that it invokes reader response to the article author's analysis of the novel:
"Does a house ask to be vandalized or, indeed, taken by force? And, more to the point, do its inhabitants somehow 'ask' to be destroyed because they have become redundant in a society that needs public housing and health centers more than rich families and country piles? If death is a harsh sentence for all but the flattest fictional characters, then one is left with the uncomfortable sense that the Ayreses have been needlessly murdered by progress and social change, which doesn’t feel quite right either."
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