Three Oscar Wilde plays down and three more to read in this bind up edition I have. I am listening to them on audio and they have full cast naration. This play sounded like a tv episode with a live audience because there was laughter at the funny parts and it made me enjoy the story. But I did give this a 4 star as well.
We are thrust into a luncheon full of high society ladies and men. There is an American woman visiting and she is known as the Puritan among the aristocrats. She is very opinionated and the English women let her know their feelings about America and everything.
There is a gentlemen named Gerald. He is excited about a new job opportunity and he is sharing his good news with everyone. His mother is there at the luncheon and her son's new employer named Lord Illingworth. These two have a past and it all comes to a head.
We learn about why Gerald's mother Mrs Arnuthnot is an outcast and how Lord Illingworth is a misogynistic pig.
My jaw dropped several times while reading and I was very disguted. Especially at the son when he demanded that his mother marry his father because it was her duty. Dammit boy, didn't she just tell you that your sperm donor kept telling her he would marry her, yet he didn't even when she annouced that she was pregnant with you.
I also feel that the relationship between Gerald and Hester, the American woman came out of no where and made no sense to me.
No comments:
Post a Comment