Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Queen of the Night - Joyce Carol Oates - 172 / 365 of reading one short story every day.

A Sentimental Education by Oates is five stories and a novella—and filled with dark and depressing characters who are desperate and dangerous.



Three of the stories are uncomfortably obvious: in The Precipice, a peaceful man is drawn by evil to fight; in The Tryst, a young woman attempts suicide in the bathroom of her married lover's house while his family is out; in "A Middle-Class Education," we see the nervous breakdown of an educated and modern man who's witnessed a downtown murder.


Queen of the Night

The story portrays the marriage of a seemingly innocent older woman to a younger man—and his destruction at her hands. The relationship is unbalanced, with power in one person’s hand and lamb like innocence at the other side. Human manipulation, greed and selfishness become the core themes of this story.





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