Can You Forgive Her
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Alice Vavasor cannot choose whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey – and finds herself long-suffering and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora – forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast chance. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her misconduct of the Victorian moral code, Trollope made a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.
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Lady Glencora McCloskie is “cumbered” by fantastic wealth, Mr.Palliser though wealthy enough can use more for his politicalambitions. A marriage is arranged between these two, though Lady Glencora likes a charming ne’er do well. So far it might be a Harlequin romance, but Trollope, whose generosity of spirit is matched only by the clarity of his eye, makes these stock facts and persons around them real, odd as all humans are, and yet familiar. Thus Mr. Palliser at a climactic moment, “You are incorrect about one thing. I do like you. If you do not like me, that is a misfortune, but we need not therefore be disgrace. Will you try to like me?” Then he is called from the room.”He did not kiss her. It was not that he was not minded to kiss her. He would have kissed her readily enough had he thought the occasion required it. “He says he likes me,” she thought, “but he does not know what like is.” How they learn is a process that extends thru the six “Palliser novels.” worth reading for students of life, writing, or like.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A better title for Trollope’s novel would be “Can You End It?” Frankly, I couldn’t. The type is too tiny, the style is too dense, and it’s all much ado about nothing. Hmm. Much ado about nothing. Now there’s a excellent title and a excellent read.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Haha, such a serious toned book with a serious situation, yet such a title. Trollope, eat your heart out!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Trollope is no Charles Dickens, but he has insights into human life that Dickens seems to lack completely. Trollope deeply understands that women have their own interests, needs, preferences, and ambitions. He also understands that women cannot permanently count on the men in their lives to provide financial security. He understands these things not only on a sociological plane, but on a deeply personal, psychological level.
Sorry to say, he does not let these realities reach their essential conclusion. The women you care about in his books are typically left comfortable and pleased, because they are lucky with their men. Like Dickens, Trollope is ready to accept the social reality of women as he finds it. Unlike, say, the women in George Eliot’s novels, Trollope’s women are rescued by men, or by their patrimony, so they are not left in poverty and despair.
But, nonetheless, Trollope is a fantastic and addictive storyteller. I read this novel in a week, and I can’t wait to read the next book in the Palliser series.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Well, not reasonably, as they were introduced (in brief) in previous works. But this is the book in which Trollope fleshed out their characters, building them more vital to the plot. And a excellent thing, too, agreed how uninteresting the plot of “Can You Forgive Her?” really is. Alice Vavasor, the titular heroine is pretty much a cipher, which makes it very hard to care about the difficulties she’s having choosing between two men (one “excellent,” the additional “terrible.”) And don’t get me ongoing on the comic subplot, which is an unfortunate waste of time. It’s only when the Pallisers are front and center that the book shows any real signs of life. Lady Glencora, in particular, is one of Trollope’s most inspired creations; vivacious, candid, painstakingly unsuited to the proper, humorless Plantagenet, she’s fascinating, fun and impossible not to like. (She too experiences romantic heartbreak, but it’s far more appealing than anything Alice is dealing with. If only Trollope had made the entire book about her!)
Of course, second rate Trollope is better than most everyone else’s best, so there will still be a lot for fans to appreciate. But I won’t pretend that “Can You Forgive Her?” is not, at times, a hard slog.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5