She disobeys her father! He tells her to play the piano and sing for some guests, and she says no, because it's Sunday and the song he wants her to sing isn't a religious song. He tells her that she will sit on the piano stool, with no food, until she obeys. She faints and hits her head on the corner of the piano while falling. Travilla, the friend who later marries her, says to her father, "Dinsmore, you're a brute!" Her father had said that her disobeying had humiliated him in front of his friends. We get to read a bit of the conversation among the friends at the party, though, and they seem to think that her father's insistence was much worse than her disobedience.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 4:12:51 pm PDT #3528 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 4:14:37 pm PDT #3529 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Elsie is soooooo the patriarchy's Mary Sue.
Scrappy - Mar 13, 2009 4:16:26 pm PDT #3530 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I predict that by her submission and true morality her father will end up having a change of heart and will be a better man. So she does get what she wants in the end but only by suffering. Boys take action, girls suffer.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 4:38:05 pm PDT #3531 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm reading this on Project Gutenberg. I just got a server error, in the middle of Elsie and her father arguing faith vs. works! (Elsie, of course is on the side of faith.)
t edit: phew. Server came back. Now I can read Elsie telling everyone how they need to be born again.
Cass - Mar 13, 2009 4:42:08 pm PDT #3532 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Well, I started it out of a sort of morbid curiosity. And now I kind of want to finish it, because it just keeps getting worse, and I just keep wondering what on earth this author will do next.
I am glad I have no such curiosity because it sounds like something I would not enjoy reading. Not even a little bit.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:03:22 pm PDT #3533 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This is disturbing. Elsie's father keeps getting upset when she says that she loves Jesus more than she loves him.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:05:13 pm PDT #3534 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This book seems like it's more overtly Old Testament than a lot of them, but the underlying message and the intense emotion is the same.
What do you mean by Old Testament?
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:46:52 pm PDT #3535 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm also really having trouble figuring out the money in this book. I'm used to things in old books seeming absurdly cheap, but the amounts that people are paying for things here seem like just as much as we'd pay now, if not more.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 6:22:51 pm PDT #3536 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Fourth post in a row? Is everybody else out having lives?
My shoulder is really hurting now. It ended up really painful during PT this morning, and then they used a TENS on me and that brought the pain down, but it's coming back now.
Torque - Mar 13, 2009 6:27:19 pm PDT #3537 of 30000
Bad Wolf
Hil, I have no life either... just me and a bottle of wine.