Sometimes I feel like such a dour feminist when I’m reading - I get frustrated with myself that I can’t put it aside to enjoy a work of art on its own. Reading Stoner I felt a little haunted by the wife and daughters interior perspective, completely hidden from view
memorable portrayal of a time not so long ago in the US when Philip Wylie's "Generation of Vipers" was a part of the Zeitgeist. men didn't obliquely hint that women were the cause of their own failures & women were just plain evil; in those days they came out clearly & unambiguously to state it, restate it, & restate it. this perspective, embedded in "Stoner" like a fossil in a rock.