WH Discussion Day 3

[writingwithheld]

How is it going, everyone? I think the story is picking up. More and more characters with similar names keep popping up, which is always fun.

[bluelikejazz]

Still chugging along.

Catherine is starting to wear on me. She's so whiny and needy and self centered. Half-Assed Trying to starve herself to get attention, but being so passive aggressive that she won't say anything to her husband.

[briedrew]

I find Catherine hard to sympathize with. I'm getting through it just fine, but I'm still a little disappointed by how much I don't like them. I do like Nelly though- I love hearing how she felt/thought of everyone as things were going on.

[charlatti]

Phooey, I didn't finish the assignment! Totally forgot about it this week. I'll post later in the week when I've read it.

[mollymoe]

I feel awful for Isabell. I wish she would let Nelly tell her brother what is going on. I think Edgar would try to help her if he knew the truth.

It is funny how your prespective changes when you get older. I remember really liking the Catherine/Heathcliff love story but now, all I see is the chaos they create.

[kicius56]

The reading seems faster now as the anticipation for what comes next grows with each page I read.

Why does it always seem people in those says were so melodramatic? I want to like the love story, but the characters are so effed up I don't even know how to feel about it. Either way, I had to force myself to stop reading ahead. Must be a good thing.

[dorothyinAus]

The story is picking up a bit which is good, but I am still forcing myself to read it. I have no sympathy for the characters and still only like Nelly and Lockwood, I want to know more about them. I could really don't care what happens to the others, except that their stories are tied to Nelly and Lockwood's.

I agree that Cathy is self-centered and passive-aggressive, and that Heathcliff is a bully. I really expected that if I actually read the boo, rather than going through the motions (as I did in high school), I would enjoy it. I was mistaken. I am determined to persevere, if only so that I can find out what happens to Nelly and Lockwood.

[charlatti]

Jun 6, 2012 23:08:10 GMT -5 kicius56 said:

Why does it always seem people in those says were so melodramatic?

I don't think it's the time period as much as the style of novel -- it's a gothic romance, so it's going to be over the top in a lot of ways.

[briedrew]

Jun 7, 2012 7:29:42 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Jun 6, 2012 23:08:10 GMT -5 kicius56 said:

Why does it always seem people in those says were so melodramatic?

I don't think it's the time period as much as the style of novel -- it's a gothic romance, so it's going to be over the top in a lot of ways.

I wonder how much of it comes from Emily Bronte herself.

[pthermal]

Still keeping up. I think I'm getting more out of it on this read than I did either time before. Both were for school.