CHAPTER 2
I hope we're all still reading. No pressure. No time restraints. Read at your own pace. (i.e. do it in one night, or take several months) (whenever you finish, feel free to comment!)
Please go to the "comments" section of this post to share your thoughts on Chapter 2.
*NO SPOILERS*
*Please do not talk about anything that happens after Chapter 2*
*Thank you*
Please go to the "comments" section of this post to share your thoughts on Chapter 2.
*NO SPOILERS*
*Please do not talk about anything that happens after Chapter 2*
*Thank you*
posted by Erik at 8:29 PM
6 Comments:
first
I had stuff to say about this chapter, too, but I just finished chapter three and I've forgotten most of it. I think it was this: Landau's outbursts are so grandiose they did make me laugh a little, which I felt a tad guilty about. Threatening to break her arms over LPs? CRAZY.
I hope that wasn't in chapter three and I got confused. I don't think it was. Anyway, Landau's mean. I don't like him. Incidentally, it's a great detail that he's so educated and still a savage. A biologist no less. That's all chapter two, right?
no, you got it right. the whole thing was so overblown. i can't imagine the hell of such a relationship.
i like how much that chapter revealed about sophie.
lindsay
Wow. Frank is on Chapter 3. I'm impressed. Chapter 2 was pretty awful, but in a good way. It went deeper into the darkness of Nathan and Sophie. It's interesting that Stingo can't separate himself from them, even though he is treated so badly by Nathan. This is such a fascinating character--someone so incredibly charming and seductive on one hand who can turn vicious so suddenly. (Oops, I forgot the other hand.)
Styron is doing a lot of foreshadowing here. It's spooky how these characters need each other. Feels pretty unhealthy, yet they are so alive. That can't be all bad.
So is this book going to make us feel better about our own lives or tell us that we all have the potential for such darkness in our souls? Scary stuff.
PAM
I'm not feeling very expressive right now, but I wanted to talk about Chapter 2 before it got away from me:
Sophie is fascinating. She needs Nathan's love at the expense of all of her own sense of self. I agree with FWL about Nathan's almost cartoonish cruelty--he's downright crazy, and Sophie seems to feed on that. It's as if she barely even notices Stingo yet, she's still so lost in the thought of possibly losing Nathan.
I think it's interesting that Stingo's first physical impression of her is that she reminds him of his recently dead ex-girlfriend Maria Hunt. Stingo's such a young sex-obsessed man and every action of his goes through this haze of horniness. I feel like all I've talked about is Stingo's horniness, but it's almost all he's talked about too (practically).
The moment when Stingo saw the number tattoo on Sophie's arm was chilling.
Post a Comment
<< Home