Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel centers on an emotional triangle involving an immigrant's daughter, Fermina Daza, a brilliant young doctor, Juvenal Urbino, with, as Thomas Pynchon has written, Florentino Ariza serving "as the hypotenuse." Florentino becomes obsessed with Fermina, who is about 13, and he writes her passionate, though unsuccessful, love letters. In typical Latin American fashion, the young woman is chaperoned and kept at a safe distance from suitors. Fermina's aunt agrees to serve as a courier, however, and soon the two fall hoplessly in love, exchanging piles and piles of stamps, envelopes and surreptitious locks of braided hair...
When Fermiana's father finds out about the illicit yet innocent relationship, he sends his daughter to the countryside on a "journey of forgetting," and he warns Florentino not to write, much less speak, to his daughter again. Florentino resolves to love Fermina forever, but when he approaches her after her return from the countryside, her sentiment has obviously changed. "Instead of the commotion of love she felt the abyss of disenchantment," and Fermina cries out to him, "No please! Forget it!" His hopes dashed for love in the present, Florentino contents himself with faith in the eternal...
Ultimately, Lessing sides with the Lovatts' all-suffering parents. It is hard to resist identifying Lessing with Dorothy, Harriet's mother. Dorothy, the kind, sage, grey-haired granny is forced to rescue her daughter from the implications of her fertility. Dorothy "knew the cost, in every way, of a family, even a small one." She dispenses advice just as Lessing provides us with a cautionary tale, a morality play. Lessing observes the irresponsibilty of her society and echoes the sentiment Dorothy has about her daughter. She says, "Sometimes you scare...
...opened last week was two musicals lumped together, one compellingly written and overpoweringly performed, the other so ditzily conceived and garishly staged that it deflates the first. The scenes between Carrie (Linzi Hateley, 17) and her mother (Betty Buckley, a 1983 Tony winner for Cats) crackle with longing. The daughter is love starved and so innocent that she does not know what is happening when she menstruates in the high school shower. Her mother is aquiver with barely suppressed sexuality, yet ablaze with guilty memory. The conflict between the girl's aching to be normal and her mother's fear...
Hockey player John C. Weisbrod '91 had a similar experience during rehabilitation. "Emo'd drive all the way over late at night, with his little daughter and a box of doughnuts," Weisbrod says...