Eli Schuster's View:
Synopsis: (1899 short story by Edith Wharton) American lovers Gannett and Lydia settle into a swanky Italian hotel. She doesn't want to get married after her divorce, so the two of them deal with society's disapproval by arguing with each other...over and over again.
What I learned: "Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."
Memorable Line: "It was the kind of society in which, after dinner, the ladies compared the exobitant charges of their children's teachers, and agreed that, even with the new duties on French clothes, it was cheaper in the end to get everything from Worth; while the husbands, over their cigars, lamented municipal corruption, and decided that the men to start a reform were those who had no private interests at stake."
You Might Like This Book If: you're fascinated by the inner turmoil of the Victorian era fashionable set, and you don't own the Upstairs Downstairs DVD box set.
Worth Considering: "I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other."
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