Trying for the "double" theme, but not working so far. Eve is pretty normal in the sense that she's normally unhappy. V. is a psychopath. They meet a couple of times. V. doesn't kill Eve because . . . I guess some empathy, kindred feeling. Now V. is off to Russia to finish off Nadia who didn't die even though she was run over a couple of times. Keep waiting to get hooked . . . hasn't happened yet. Lightly likeable, but tries so hard to be off-beat.
"To all humankind, Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends, she was only a frequently passing thought." Angel Clare is a good character. He's "enlightened," in so many ways, but when Tess's confesses her "crime," he reverts to ancestral form . . . Tess's "confession" comes earlier than I expected, right after Angel reveals that he has had a bad moment with a woman. Tess points out the similarity in their transgressions, though his is the only true transgression, expecting forgiveness. She doesn't get it. She returns to her mother . . . realizes she can't stay with her. Thoughts to suicide. Unhappiness that divorce is not possible. Departs. Tragic in that the two, if Angel could just see clearly, would indeed be a great couple, each adding to the other. Nature as a definite force involved in the tragedy. It's not neutral--when things go bad, the very skies mock Tess. Tess as unaware of the power of her bea...
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