Ok, so I don't have a quote, because I finished this book last night at work and left it in Iowa. But I'm still going to write about it. So Carson McCullers is one of my favorite authors. I love her dark writing style. She's the bomb to say the least. This one wasn't my favorite, but parts of it were just juicy in their oddness. Like the fact that Major was relieved when his daughter died. Also, the little tid-bits about the Captin and his expressions of anger. I kind of wish that the characters could have been a little bit more developed, because I did grow attatched to them. I really liked and pitied Alison, as she was crazy and sick and no one by Anteclo seemed to really care about her until she died. I bet she was a lovely woman before her daughter died.
The character I really didn't like was the Major. He didn't have much of a personality, but what I really disliked about him was that he would convince himself of things so thoroughly even if they were obviously not true. And he only began giving a shit about Alison after her death. He irked me.
I did like how Leonora was kind of the power in her relationship with the Captin. Even though she wasn't as smart as him, she still had power over him. It was a nice dynamic. I liked this book, and I feel like whenever I reread it, I will like it more.
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