The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 9781515267232 Books
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Like most happy childhoods, Sylvia's early years lay back of her in a long, cheerful procession of featureless days, the outlines of which were blurred into one shimmering glow by the very radiance of their sunshine. Here and there she remembered patches, sensations, pictures, scents Mother holding baby sister up for her to kiss, and the fragrance of the baby powder—the pine-trees near the house chanting loudly in an autumn wind—her father's alert face, intent on the toy water-wheel he was setting for her in the little creek in their field—the beautiful sheen of the pink silk dress Aunt Victoria had sent her—the look of her mother's steady, grave eyes when she was so sick—the leathery smell of the books in the University Library one day when she followed her father there—the sound of the rain pattering on the low, slanting roof of her bedroom—these were the occasional clearly outlined, bright-colored illuminations wrought on the burnished gold of her sunny little life. But from her seventh birthday her memories began to have perspective, continuity. She remembered an occasional whole scene, a whole afternoon, just as it happened.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 9781515267232 Books
My mother had read another Dorothy Canfield Fisher novel as a girl and loved it. When I found this, I bought it for us both. It's a very interesting story, but I find Ms. Fisher's style to be somewhat pedantic and tedious. Her syntax is of another age, and it makes reading the book rather time consuming. I like the characters and the plot, however, and am eager to see how things turn out for Sylvia and her family. I would recommend the book only to those who like old-fashioned stories and who know something of Ms. Fisher's educational philosophy. The casual reader may not have the patience to wade through it.Product details
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The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 9781515267232 Books Reviews
What comes to mind when you hear the term, the “bent twig?” Does it suggest a small branch whose normal direction has been
accidentally thwarted or deliberately redirected in its growth? Now add the concept that this “twig” is actually a young, impressionable girl growing up in Edwardian America. Will she survive the attempts to experiment with her character formation--to ultimately mature into her true self, or undergo cruelly meddlesome social and emotional modeling--as per to someone else’s plan for her life?
Canfield’s 1915 literary soap opera of social and personal reformation introduces readers to a little girl named Sylvia, who grows into young adulthood first in the Midwest (in the French-named city of La Chance), then in the “finishing school” of her beloved Aunt Victoria in Lydford, VT.
Canfield includes many serious themes in her romanticized novel
* Racism—that “disintegrating moral force in the national character”
* The subtle war for a woman’s purse by a luxury department store
* The stigma of Spinsterism—that a young lady who is not married by the ripe age of 20 is doomed for governessing or outright social work.
* Financial morality that one should not rest easy on luxuries earned by the toil and hardship of poorer classes.
* Social obligations to care properly for sick family members of all ages
* the danger (or comfort) from trust in Planchette’s Ouija board messages
At risk of being corrupted into a snob or at least a lady who marries for money and social position instead of for love, Sylvia Marshall
undergoes many disappointments as her heart flutters for one beau then another. Often she is faced with choices of suitors who are older than she--in Vermont and also in Paris. Her sister, Judith, and her cousin, Molly, also are courted; dramatic emotional scenes result when one young lady switches beaus. Self-sacrificing Sylvia denies her heart on several occasions and demonstrates amazing filial respect for the upbringing of her modest parents.
Sylisticly there are too many passages of moralizing--sermonettes on aesthetics, which do little to advance the languishing plot. Then after long pages of aesthetic “conversation,” sudden melodramatic events break the literary stagnation. Abrupt changes of locale may offer readers confusion, as the lovers maddeningly defer expressing their true passions. Authors enjoy showing off their familiarity with European watering holes. Expect both direct and indirect literary references to turn-of-the-century works. The Bent Twig proves a romance cum social reform, at a molasses pace.
It was interesting, but very limited in character development.
The book is a classic. Recommended reading.
All emotions are shared in this engrossing story. One feels clean after reading this book. Pure and strong and real.
My mother had read another Dorothy Canfield Fisher novel as a girl and loved it. When I found this, I bought it for us both. It's a very interesting story, but I find Ms. Fisher's style to be somewhat pedantic and tedious. Her syntax is of another age, and it makes reading the book rather time consuming. I like the characters and the plot, however, and am eager to see how things turn out for Sylvia and her family. I would recommend the book only to those who like old-fashioned stories and who know something of Ms. Fisher's educational philosophy. The casual reader may not have the patience to wade through it.
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