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product_id: 4497484
title: "The Optimist's Daughter"
brand: "eudora welty"
price: "RM136"
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reviews_count: 10
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# The Optimist's Daughter

**Brand:** eudora welty
**Price:** RM136
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Optimist's Daughter by eudora welty
- **How much does it cost?** RM136 with free shipping
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## Description

The Optimist's Daughter

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Very Complex Book-Be Ready To Read it Twice
  

*by K***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2008*

On its face, this is a "little book," not only because it is short in length, but because its written in simple prose, straightforward language, and tells a bittersweet, simple story.  But don't be fooled;  beneath the surface lies a swirling tale of frustration and betrayal.  Blink, and you will miss it.  I did.  On my second slower reading, I found layers in the layers, resentments and disappointments, flashes of anger and bitterness-even among friends, families and lovers.Through the telling of this simple tale, the author pursues various themes, using character study, plot development, symbols (birds, flowers, and other household objects).  Very few insights are given in a straightforward, declarative manner, but are unfolded slowly, in independent presentations, to which the reader gives weight by finding connections.For example, one of the larger themes the author pursues is the way love and interdependence intertwine.  In that regard, the author writes: "But Laurel had kept the pigeons under eye in their pigeon house and had already seen a pair of them sticking their beaks down each other's throats, gagging each other, eating out of each other's craws, swallowing down all over again what had been swallowed before...They convinced her that they could not escape each other and could not themselves be escaped from."Later in the novel, she revisits this theme describing how Laurel's mother, on her death bed, angrily confronted her husband's inability to "see" her pain and frustration (which the mother refers to as "her betrayal") by calling him a coward--but simultaneously and steadfastly clinging to his hands, and refusing to let go.Among other themes, as the title suggests, the author explores the notion of optimism, with the converse for the author, not being pessimism, but being realistic--the strength to face life and go on, even with its pains and difficulties.  In that regard, the author writes, "But he was not an optimist--she knew that.  Phil had learned everything he could manage to learn, and done as much as he had time for, to design houses to stand, to last, to be lived in; but he had known they could equally well, with the same devotion and tireless effort, be built of cards."In conclusion, even after two readings, I feel that I have only scratched the surface of this book's depth.  My suggestion for one considering a read, to achieve the maximum value this book has to offer, be prepared to do the work.  If you are not (which is of course fine), its probably not the best choice.

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    Just okay
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2023*

Didn’t really love but it was interesting!

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    THIS IS A MUST READ
  

*by O***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2020*

The story is about a forty-something daughter who returns to her childhood home to help her father through a surgery which eventually leads to his death. Laurel, the daughter, sits through her father’s wake as a flood of old friends dawdle around when the new wife’s white trash family invades the solemn farewell.The heart of the story is hard to point out. Every word, every character and their diction, every event within those few days that story takes places come together at the end for Laurel. When the sum of it all leads to a grand realization that will not only help her through this loss, but in life.Things I particularly loved about the novel—how the author used nature to set the mood and sometimes foreshadowed things to come. The rose bushes. Her mother’s childhood house set on a high mountain. The river. The caged pigeons. And the bird that got in through the chimney; and could escape. The storm… And even the breadboard her husband had so lovingly made for her mother.The read was like walking through a muddy road in red heels. But. Once I'd reached the paved road, I stood looking down at my beautiful expensive red shoes and looked back at the muddy road behind. I had a choice be angry about the muddy shoes or see the beauty ahead of me. I chose the latter, much like Laurel.When the heart of the story is climaxed at the second to the last page, that’s when it will all make sense; and that is the heart of the story.

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