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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
[...] One of the powerful things about this book is its reflection of the harshness and unfairness of life. Happy endings might make us feel good, but they don’t happen as often as we would like them to.
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But if realism is the objective of the story then I find it unfortunate that it should offer us Violet Gamart as the obvious scapegoat for blame. The idea that there is always someone (else) responsible for the bad things in our life is attractive, but misleading.