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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Hubert - Stand My Ground

I think it's too easy to sort of demonize Hubert as the negative of the story, you know? Because he's so enraged in the beginning and he wishes he hasn't married her. And by the end, he just wants to laugh her out of her gloominess. He just has this underlying tenderness for her. Maybe it's because we see these flashbacks of their wedding day and early relationship where he really was in love with her.

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