Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: THENDARA HOUSE Message-ID: <901@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:51:43 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.901 Posted: Mon Mar 19 15:51:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:25:49 EST References: <17319@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <931@qubix.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 20 Mr. Maurer would like to hear about For example, a man who loves his wife and children (golly, maybe he dosen't even beat her when their baby turns out to be a girl), but sure as hell isn't going to give them any modern-day freedoms... in one of MZB's novels. What about the title character's father, The MacAran, in *Hawkmistress*? He loves his daughter dearly, but he won't put up with any of her tomboy nonsense, and tries to force her into a marriage against her will. Yet he is presented as a sympathetic character. His daughter even loves him, in spite of their strong philosophical differences. (Just for the record, I thought that Mists of Avalon was terrible, even though I'm a rabid Arthurian. Maybe BECAUSE I'm a rabid Arthurian. So you don't have to be an MZB idolizer to like some of her works.) -- Betsy Perry UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay