She sounds pretty unbearable. But I haven't read the book
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Audrey Rouget:
I read that Lionel Trilling essay you mentioned. You really like Trilling? Tom Townsend:
Yes. Audrey Rouget:
I think he's very strange. He says that nobody could like the heroine of "Mansfield Park". I like her! Then he goes on and on about how we modern people of today with our modern attitudes, bitterly resent "Mansfield Park" because its heroine is virtuous? What's wrong with a novel having a virtuous heroine? Tom Townsend:
His point is that the novel's premise - that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play - is simply absurd. Audrey Rouget:
You found Fanny Price unlikable? Audrey Rouget:
She sounds pretty unbearable. But I haven't read the book
I read that Lionel Trilling essay you mentioned. You really like Trilling? Tom Townsend:
Yes. Audrey Rouget:
I think he's very strange. He says that nobody could like the heroine of "Mansfield Park". I like her! Then he goes on and on about how we modern people of today with our modern attitudes, bitterly resent "Mansfield Park" because its heroine is virtuous? What's wrong with a novel having a virtuous heroine? Tom Townsend:
His point is that the novel's premise - that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play - is simply absurd. Audrey Rouget:
You found Fanny Price unlikable? Audrey Rouget:
She sounds pretty unbearable. But I haven't read the book
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I read that Lionel Trilling essay you mentioned
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You really like Trilling Yes
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I think he's very strange
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He says that nobody could like the heroine of Mansfield Park
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I like her
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Then he goes on and on about how we modern people of today with our modern attitudes
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bitterly resent Mansfield Park because its heroine is virtuous
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What's wrong with a novel having a virtuous heroine
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His point is that the novel's premise
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that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play is simply absurd
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You found Fanny Price unlikable
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She sounds pretty unbearable But I haven't read the book
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Movie Summary
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
