A Lost Lady by Willa CatherMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Listen, Mrs. Forrester is trying to do the best she can in a tough era, and I'm not terribly interested in Neil's indictment of her. As the entire midwest is sliding into shabbiness, Neil is growing up and his view of Mrs. Forrester, who he's put on a pedestal, is rapidly degenerating as well. His negative feelings are barely veiled sour grapes and later also some misdirected Ivy rage.
We never see the world directly from Mrs. Forrester's point of view, but even from Neil's biased view, we learn that Mrs. Forrester is deeply flawed and deliciously complicated. She's the Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary that SURVIVES, and even escapes and blooms again. I give Willa Cather a lot of credit for creating a character like that.
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