[LMB] TSK: Beguilement Re-read -- Questions for Chapter 3

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Thad Coons" <tocoons at gmail.com>


>    I suppose I'm a bit irritated by the question itself, because I'm not
> nearly so interested in what makes it a good romance, or a good fantasy, 
> or
> whatever, as in what makes it a good story.
>
hear, hear!  i second that.

>
>  In our own 19th century, before ... years of secondary and higher 
> education became almost abligatory
> before a child could function as an adult, .... In this kind of social 
> context, Fawn
> seems to be rather unusually sheltered for her age.
>
and complains often that as the youngest and as the only daughter, no one 
tells ehr anything, then they blame her foolish behavior on her  youth 
instead of enforced ignorance.
her whole problem with sunny compounded bec 1- no one gossiped in her 
presence about boyfriends, so she had no secondary info about 'what its all 
about' and 2- no one wanred her that girls 'could' on the first time.  she 
had nothing to refut sunny's claim that girls 'couln't'.
also 3- 'stupid fawn' didn't want to give ehr brothers something -else- to 
laugh at her about, which sort of implies they laughed at ehr ofthen.  her 
household may have been supporteve of her to the point of not gonig hungry, 
not beating her, etc, but they didn't seem to provide much happiness or even 
peace of mind.

ziviya
raising one daughter among several brothers.  it makes a difference.