Week 6- Double Lariat

Title of today's post was taken from a song I like, literally having nothing to do with the rest almost.

Anyways, I skipped last week's post due to illness, I'll post it later, but tonight, I'll be taking two excerpts for today's assignment. The first is from Alex Woloch's "The One vs. the Many" located on page 12 of the excerpt and towards the bottom of page 62.

"The first chapter of Pride and Prejudice obscures the novel's central focus. WIll the narrative continue to depict all the five sisters as a social group or orient itself around Elizabeth, whom Mr. Bennet claims has 'something more of quickness'? This wavering continues a good way into the story. Austen's omniscience allows her to defocalize the novel, so that narrative attention drifts from person to person."

Given that in mind, I checked the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice and found this excerpt that contributes to the first excerpt. This starts at the end of page 3 and goes to page 4.

"But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers. Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him if you do not."

These two passages seem to play off one another if read in order. What I have to wonder is, would the novel be so bad if the novel depicted the girls as a social group like the first passage reads?

I mean, given what we've read so far, with the interaction between sisters, it couldn't be bad to have them spend some more time together. And given that this novel is probably gonna be a bunch of love story and drama, we could use some more interesting interactions between the sisters. The turnabouts and critical points of the novel make things seem to flow smoothly, but you wonder what would happen is they all sync up or continue to branch apart? So far I've read some of this novel and I admit it's been interesting. But for now, I don't have much to go into superb detail, so this will have to wait for now for a better opinion.

Until next time folks. ^^