I recently had a visit from one of my nieces who helped me get my physical world in a bit of order and also helped me get this blog world set up, for both of which I am most thankful. I have a wonderful family.
This set me to thinking about families and literature. Almost every book has something to do with the family background of one or more characters, even if it's only hinted at. And more often than not it is a troublesome relationship in some way. I'm sure that most of us would want to have a good relationship with the members of our family, yet it is these troublesome relationships that most interest up when we are reading. Conflict. Oh, yes. We might want to avoid it in real life, but a book without it would be very boring.
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Wasn't it Tolstoi who said, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
ReplyDeleteYes, and he had a way of showing those unhappy families.
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