Review: CLASSIC
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
Despite my struggle to understand the vernacular--I never did feel I could get 100% of anything any local person said--I liked this as much as Jane Eyre and Silas Marner, which I read when I was probably about 10 years old and have always liked. I believe such reading--Jane Eyre in particular--also prepared me to understand the intended meaning of "intercourse" and "ejaculate"--not what is generally understood by such verbiage today! (I understood them to mean "conversation" and "exclaim," respectively.) I was disappointed at how unfinished the work was left with respect to her religious convictions and generally her relationship with the only people she'd ever known--save 2--in her small world up to the end of the book. My disappointment is the sharpest with respect to her conflicts with her father. It was probably analogous to the disappointment I felt at how unresolved matters were left between Silas Marner and Lantern Yard, where he'd grown up. Nevertheless, I REALLY enjoyed this book. Once a friend told me, referring to my mentally cruel father, "the best revenge is happiness!" I truly felt that Tillie's chances at happiness in life were far better than average. The LOL moments far outweighed the ones that made me cry. A VERY good read!