In the first week reading, to be honest, I have tried hard to understand the relationship between Eliot and Oliver, and I almost succeeded. However, after this week’s reading, I was engulfed by a awkward feeling through the plots described by the author.
The plots in the novel which I felt radical and monotonous were incomprehensible for me, just like the descriptions in a similar book with the same motif called letters from an unknown woman, in which the author depicted a woman who fell in love with a strange man and crazily wrote to the man without doing anything else. I wondered why Eliot was crazy about doing those abnormal things to express his feelings. It’s also difficult for me to concur with the belief that one person doesn’t long for anything but girl-crush on other person. If the delicate descriptions of the secret love in the first week made me feel something intriguing, over half of the book focused on the same thing could be boring and bald, especially the emotions of the main character evolved toward the rim of a abnormal world.
From my perspective, it’s supposed to have something more than their daily motions within the book. Although the author may want to express the sincere emotions and call on the mainstream to regard guy love as a precious and normal relationship in the world, I ponder that a outstanding novel should include more than that in it. Many of things concluded in the book could reflect the gist highlighted by the author, such as the descriptions of the difficult milieu in that time and the different relationships between different people. Creating a grand layout of a story could better convey the real intention of the author and endow the novel with a higher artistic value
