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On Chesil Beach
***This comment contains spoilers! ***
The story of Edward and Florence makes me reflect about how it can be difficult to learn to manage one’s sexuality. The characters of the novel have their first disastrous experience in their wedding night (well, maybe the typical English dinner they have contributes to their problems..), but I thin ... (continue)
The story of Edward and Florence makes me reflect about how it can be difficult to learn to manage one’s sexuality. The characters of the novel have their first disastrous experience in their wedding night (well, maybe the typical English dinner they have contributes to their problems..), but I think in everyone’s life there are moments like that, and fears and desires can be managed only with patience…and experience. At the end of the novel Edward regrets his not having been patient, reinforcing another typical theme of McEwan’s books: what happens in a single moment can change one’s life forever (this is perhaps the reason for Edward’s love for single persons that can change history). I'm only a bit disappointed about Florence disappearing at the end of the story...
Ian McEwan is a master in describing particulars (more about bodies and feelings than about nature), his language almost perfect. I really enjoyed it.