There is no love plotline in Housekeeping, because not every story needs one. No one expects Holden Caulfield to find love at the end of his self-explorative adventure, and we shouldn't expect every female character to either. Coming of age novels are supposed to be about finding yourself, not finding someone else.
- "It's Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That's Not About Love: Literary girls don't take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men."
(The Atlantic)
Damn straight!
ReplyDeleteIt's so frustrating to read a book because the plot looks interesting, and find out it's actually a sub-plot for the MFC hooking up with Mr. Perfect.
Yeah. I complain about that in reading Urban Fantasy a LOT. To be fair, this often becomes true of the male MC in such series (they get the woman, get married or she dies/becomes a vampire/etc.) but it is far less a focus OF the series. I've come across very few with a female protagonist that didn't become 'cute guy! love triangles!' and the like and it annoys the crap out of me.
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