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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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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.