Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-03-25

Is afraid of anyone seeing the rawncss Of his emotions
ana sentiments Her every attempt to penetrate his musk
Is interpreted by George ns an attempt To chidc him.
an effort of AIMS to gain a victory him
Jcssicn is attracted by Geofrrcy Clarke and her at
tcmpts TO him motivatcd by desire To
complete craving which seemed to elusive than by an
actual respect for his mentality and There is
poiut which, far memory serves, Barrett never
touches He ncglccS TO infer mention That
JcSsca drawn TO non-Icvs in n subconscous or "a
pressed effort to escnpc their fellow Jews Examining
the respective characters Of Godfrey Jcssc seems
improbable that JcSsca would deliberately have
self to someone so vrtuousy hglmindcd narrowly
tolerant so rigid Presbyterian True Georcy had tried
to cude her for many months the reasons being
her JcwishncsS. But that wasn't sufficient
The bare summary the story as far as the undilut.
ed Jewish angle is concerned The two are unhappy
with the two GontilcS In the case, il Is Geots,
Is guilty In the alliance Gcolreys stupidity
and Straighibackcd frgidy that the parting
story is managed ~knrully the problem is mentioned
50 indinerenlly that The Encmys Gates" CLOSES with
out having betrayed Barrctts opinion merits mar
ringc between lew and nouJcw.
Barrett has been concerned with character phrase
and figure Of speech that unfair discuss The
Enemy. Gates purely from the standpoint problem
novel In fact treatment of the subject matter
even dcefs one from arriving at conclusion the basis
Of his novel. The Encnys is the one novel OF
its kind which he recommended jew non-Iew
believers IN iuernarriagc and non-iccvcrs Is prob
able that many will in II justir4tn perhaps n
plea. for the merging OF II Is just as likely that
others will feel in every page of The Ecmys Gates"
fierce dcnuncation Of the attempt reconcile the dia-
mctricaly opposed
Barrctt> concern with caraccrizatio has been
toned often and yet there who stand
out sharply, who could he recognized easily any time
II is Geonrcy Clarke the blue rro,bitten eyed rresby
tean whose niggardly vulgar parents he rcbuke
enough to amy jew who is tired of his family and
ycarns therefore after the and Charm of Christian
parents. George Is foriiddmg pcrSunagr The only
adjective that describes him is towering His bacfu
influence sheds its uminousncsS every
cidcn in The Encmy's lie might be termed the
adult edition Of Jude the Obscure except the former
is less purposcfu less dynamic Jude's strength
dcatcd by his doing twelve believe what George
only accidentally accomplished after grown years misery
JcsSca is Barrctts other fine Characterization She
is outlined ndelibly She undoubtedly close the
authors experience. She is flesh and blood in body
soul Nothng reminiscent nothing insecure about Bar
rettS depletion Of this passionate. strong minded lcvc
headed scion Of the noble lineage Of MOrgcna Perhaps
it is because Of her warmth that she might he
Ia have life than Gcofrcy Clarke. In any ease
must remain of the foremost pcrsouags Of this
seasons literary world If awards are he made If
ont fear Of contradiction from any reliable sourcc-tnat
Jcsia Morgentha stands strongest worthics
and distinguished admirable woman ever created
in all the literature about the jew that has written
in America. Martin Goldc-Scvcu Arts f. 81
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