Favorite Book

So I noticed that my favorite movie, Brief Encounter, and favorite book, Jane Eyre, share a similar theme of People In Love Not Having an Affair.

I know Brief Encounter appeals to me because the children are considered in the love triangle. Yet in Jane Eyre, the children are not a consideration: they get left behind. She chooses starvation over Adele, and then when Jane has money in the bank she abandons an entire classroom of children the minute she has her wind hallucination, utterly unaware that Bertha’s dead and there’s a crowd-pleasing ending waiting for her. 

So why does Jane Eyre get a pass? I suppose I must think natural-born children are the only ones who count. That’s peculiar given that my stepfather was the only father who counted. 

Or maybe I’m not as judgemental with fictional characters as I am with myself. That certainly makes sense.

Comments

[CHM]

I think I will have to read Jane Eyre (my favorite book) again because I need to read it from the perspective of the children.

But I am here mostly to comment on what I just happened to see in your reply to my comment on a previous post, which I looked at because I am a Class A One procrastinator. You wrote: "I somehow found the spot in Typead where lost comments go to die. .. I noticed about a dozen of YOUR comments, which I retroactively published."

Thank you!

I see that my most recent comment was posted, so maybe your accepting those retroactively fixed it. I will see if I can abbreviate my online "name" to CHM.

It was my then teenaged son who thought up my online name - pretty much likening me to a cockroach. Fun times.

[theQueen]

CHM - Harsh, teenage son, harsh!