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Love's labor's regained: the making of companionate marriages in Frank Norris's The Pit.(Critical Essay)

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 20040101
Author:Piep, Karsten H.

   Our marriages are only saved from disaster--when they are saved at 
   all--by a readjustment from the fictive romantic basis on to 
   something more stable, but change is usually painful, troublesome, 
   and imperfect, generally leaving the feeling on both sides of 
   disillusionment. 
   --Havelock Ellis, "The Future of Marriage" 
 
   But I believe in companionship, I believe that between 
   man and woman that is the great thing--companionship. 
   --Page to Landry in The Pit 

Published posthumously in January of 1903, Frank Norris's last novel became an instant success. ...

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