To Any Lengths
Jacqueline Gay Walley
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
The "I" is a woman who is deliberating getting married to her boyfriend and is frightened. Her childhood has made her distrust union. She has a friend who has just gone to jail for growing marijuana. He has been a war hero, an artist, is good looking, a womanizer. She begins to visit him, because he is trapped like she is, and he gives her advice on love and herself. She begins to listen. He is the one who is "free" to her. In listening to him, she begins to itemize her own crimes in love. She marries her boyfriend, out of friendship, but the marriage feels doomed to her because the prisoner's mind is lodged inside her. She has to come to where she belongs and what is freedom to her.
Kundenbewertungen
Prison, Crimes of love, Ambivalence, abortion, Triangle, death of the father, Marriage, love, Writing, finding the self, Freedom, Psychoanalysis, Engagement, challenges of an abnormal childhood, Literature, abandonment by mother, alcoholic father, challenge of being a woman, challenge of being an artist, exploration of the psyche