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In Mrs. Bridge, Evan Connell creates a portrait using the tesserae of everyday events and confrontations. Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. Mrs. Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends.
Set in Kansas City in the 1930s this companion volume to Mr. Bridge offers stunning portrayals of the lives of "solid citizens" of modern American society.
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Daniel George
reviewed Mrs. Bridge on October 18, 2017
Mrs. Bridge
Originally published in 1959, this quiet novel is set in Kansas City in the 1930's. The minutiae of everyday life, the ins and outs of the Bridge household, shown in bits and snippets. Mrs. Bridge is vaguely dissatisfied with her life, but can't really put her finger on why. Her husband and three children no longer seem to need her attention. In providing everything for her, it may be that Mr. Bridge has done her no favors. She is at loose ends more often than not.
Finely written, it is subtle, with underlying notes of melancholy. The image of an unfinished book dying on a shelf stays with me.
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