washington square

[Verity17]

I'm studying 'Washington Square' for my AS level english, and I have never read such a teadious, slow and pointless book. The characters have no character, and the very simple story line never amounts to anything. I'm trying to revise for my lit exam at the moment, but trying to re-read such a novel is proving difficult. I wish we had studied 'Return of the Native'
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[Gladys]

The last half of the novel's OK. I enjoyed the ending: fully explaining the final sentence was briefly challenging.

'Catherine, meanwhile, in the parlour, picking up her morsel of fancy work, had seated herself with it again--for life, as it were.'