Skepticism and Shocked with Marguerite Duras
Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras's autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to Saigon. Her younger brother becomes an accounting clerk, and her mother becomes a teacher who desperately wants her child to get an education, especially in math. This story takes place at the end of the 1920s. In my blog post, I will talk about the eldest brother, the relationship between Marguerite and her lover, and how Marguerite fantasizes about her love with her lover and wants one of her friends to experience it, even with her lover. In the Early pages, we understand who her eldest brother is and how Marguerite feels about him. She did not like how much her mother loved him, and because of the way he bullies Marguerite and his family, she wanted to kill him. "I wanted to kill my elder brother, I wanted to kill him, to get the...