"...the imaginative scope could be larger or more generous. The protagonist's situation and her struggles are strongly dramatized and affecting, but she is surrounded so exclusively by rather petty people as to create a sense of a diminished world." -- Eva Hoffmann
Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?
-- Rainer Maria |