Edith is the plain sister of the three. Sarah O'Brien, who is always called O'Brien
Not sure why I flipped those two names. Didn't realize I had, thanks.
Sybil and Chauffeur doesn't work, because we never saw a thing from Sybil's end. He talked and talked, but she never showed the least interest in him personally.
Agreed. Sybil wasn't really interested in him at all while she got to be a nurse, it's when she had nothing to do that he interested her. I think she's more in love with the idea of having a life of hard work or labor vs. leisure. She's bored. Edith I think has the same problem. They've nothing to fill their time now that the war is over.
Matthew is an escapee from an early 19th century novel, the romantic hero with the woman he did wrong in his past, that he can never get over, even though he only sorta-kinda was in love with her in the first place.
That was my impression as well. He reminds me a great deal of the type of heroes wandering through Austen and Bronte novels. They don't seem to know what they want, and they become oddly attached to romantic notions. I keep wanting to slap them. If you still fancied yourself in love with Mary why lead Lavenia on, you dope? And if you are now in love with Lavenia? Stop leading Mary on. You can't have both, obviously, deal. Richard - I liked better - he knew what he wanted and went after it. Less wishy-washy.
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:36 pm (UTC)Not sure why I flipped those two names. Didn't realize I had, thanks.
Sybil and Chauffeur doesn't work, because we never saw a thing from Sybil's end. He talked and talked, but she never showed the least interest in him personally.
Agreed. Sybil wasn't really interested in him at all while she got to be a nurse, it's when she had nothing to do that he interested her. I think she's more in love with the idea of having a life of hard work or labor vs. leisure. She's bored. Edith I think has the same problem. They've nothing to fill their time now that the war is over.
Matthew is an escapee from an early 19th century novel, the romantic hero with the woman he did wrong in his past, that he can never get over, even though he only sorta-kinda was in love with her in the first place.
That was my impression as well. He reminds me a great deal of the type of heroes wandering through Austen and Bronte novels.
They don't seem to know what they want,
and they become oddly attached to romantic notions. I keep wanting to slap them. If you still fancied yourself in love with Mary why lead Lavenia on, you dope? And if you are now in love with Lavenia? Stop leading Mary on. You can't have both, obviously, deal. Richard - I liked better - he knew what he wanted and went after it.
Less wishy-washy.