But at a more fundamental level he is wrong, because he has denied the subjective reality that exists between a text and its individual reader and its distinction from the textual reality of the narration. Bentley and Philip are a single construct of the narrator, he is correct. When John Moss writes that "There are not two realities in this novel" (140), meaning that Mrs. But the power of Ross's writing is such that he leaves the story open enough that the reader brings him or herself into the text, and, as we are, so we understand. What is the relationship Ross draws between the public and private?Īs we are, so we create, both personally and socially. Discuss the idea of "false fronts" in the novel. Bentley refers several times to the "false fronts" of the Main Street shops. Bentley In As For Me and My HouseĮnglish 357 Canadian Literature Since 1920 The Projection of the Unconscious and the Death of a Marriage: Mrs. Sinclair Ross - As For Me and My House.rtf
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