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Originally Posted by issybird
High-hatting people isn’t going to convince them to give The Scarlet Letter a try.
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No joke, it was the TV series Mama's Family (a cheesy stupid syndicated sitcom) that made me want to read The Scarlet Letter. Thelma is assigned The Scarlet Letter and has all the usual complaints. Her friend Iola describes the book in the most pot-boiler, soap opera terms, which made the book more approachable to Mama. I admit, the synopsis intrigued me and I read the book and wound up loving it (though I think I prefer House of the Seven Gables).
There's some value in approaching the classics a little less seriously.