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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9895723" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think it's even about getting to be something cool, it's just not plausible for that character and her personality, background and so on. Like, I could buy her playing house with a farmer for a few weeks or months or year, until she thought of something else she wanted to try, but for the rest of her life until he dies? LOL come on.I presume you're somewhat joking re: sexist but I do think it did tie in to some unexamined sexism in making Tenar follow this weirdly modern pattern which certainly a few women in the 1960s-1980s followed (i.e. was in a cult as a teenager/early twenties, left cult, married a really boring guy lead a really boring suburban life, he died, she gets together with someone from her life before - but like, there were reasons for that, and they don't apply here, because it's not the mid-century USA, and also valium and barbiturates don't exist in this setting).</blockquote>