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A 3 page analysis of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac. It's the rather sad tale of a 39-year-old Englishwoman with the symbolic name of 'Edith Hope' who is sent by concerned friends to sit out a scandal at small, discreet resort in Switzerland, the Hotel du Lac. The story revolves around the central question of what sort of behavior is appropriate for a woman, and how Edith handles finding her own direction and decisions regarding this particular issue. Edith must decide whether or not she will meet society's expectations or determine what expectations are appropriate on her own. No additional sources cited.
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through the novel what "dreadful thing" Edith did to cause such an exile--which turns out to be an affair with a married man, David.
This is addressed so late in the novel because it really is irrelevant to the main point. The novel revolves around the central question of what sort of
behavior is appropriate for a woman, and how Edith handles finding her own direction and decisions regarding this particular issue. Edith must decide whether or not she will meet societys
expectations or determine what expectations are appropriate on her own. At the hotel, there is a wide assortment of interesting people for Edith to interact with and speculate about.
There is an aging, deaf Contessa who is neglected by her ungrateful son, a lovely anorexic named Monica who survives by eating cake and Mrs. Pusey, a widow who is
filthy rich and thrives on spending money on her own vanity and that of her daughter Jennifer--who is essentially a duplicate of the mother. Among this assortment is a lone
man, Mr. Neville, who Edith believes looks rather like the portrait of the Duke of Wellington that was stolen from the National Gallery. This last comment is an example of
Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with ones own liking in comedy. If it doesnt, the book becomes
the rather dreary account of Ediths day-to-day life at the resort where she mostly reads, walks, bathes, eats and waits in suspense to see what Mrs. Pusey will wear to
dinner. However, many people do enjoy this type of humor which can be characterized as an English comedy of manners, sort of a la Jane Austen, where the English are
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