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Old 02-18-2019, 01:51 PM   #53
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While I'm on Kit, I'd like to bring up Suzanna, who was a total enigma to me. I can't help thinking that her purpose in the book was emblematic and not actual. We never did find out her unspecified illness. She seemed to have had several near-death crises, lived in a state of fragility, needed to be heavily sedated to sleep, was constantly attended by emergency pills and an alarm. She seemed to me to symbolize the nations (UK and US), a conscience that either or both looked the other way or was ineffectual in its protests. She certainly didn't work for me as a real person.
What an interesting idea! Perhaps Emily is Suzanna waking up and ready to act, with Le Carré leaving open the question of whether it’s in time to save the day.
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