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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is It Too Late for Rose?

Brennan: We get a fair amount of Rose's family background, her childhood. She has this completely black and white upbringing where the mother despises are and the father doors her. And so she has no way to think about herself. But then at the end, we get this image of Rose in her own environment,. The place where she does make the right decisions, as you said, in the garden. That's the place where she actually has the power.

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