[percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 4

Seth C. Holler scholler at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 17:57:54 EDT 2012


What an unhelpful first reply... :(

Alex: You might rethink your reading of both women as essentially
irreligious. Doris is "ruined" by good clean books celebrating "high
places." She isn't irreligious; she loses her religion.

-- 
Seth C. Holler, Ph.D. candidate
Graduate Associate in Teaching
English Dept.
The University of Arizona


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Joshua <joshuaemrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

> They are 2 different women. And questions can be dumb.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Alex Bell <alexbell25 at tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> > hello all,
> >
> > I'm a English graduate student at Texas A&M, and i have a question that
> hopefully can be answered (or at least assuaged) with consensus. In _Love
> in the Ruins_ Tom More repeatedly reminisces on his dead wife Doris. we are
> told that she was a highly principled yet non-religious woman (i believe he
> refers to her as an ex-episcopalian who found interest in eastern
> religion). Ellen Oglethorpe, Dr More's secretary and eventual lover, is the
> referred to in a similar fashion-- a Presbyterian who has "no use" for God,
> but who adheres to a strict moral code. How then are we to differentiate
> these women (if we even are to do so), especially in regards to their
> effect on More? can More's "choosing" of Ellen be a return to a previous
> state of life--life before the loss of his child--or is there as subtle
> difference between Doris and Ellen which i am missing?
> >
> >
> > thank you in advance for any enlightenment
> >
> > Alex Bell
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