Parts of the story are superfluous, many parts are underdeveloped and abandoned. Plot is underutilized in strengthening the theme. She succeeds at this task with a keen empathy and understanding of the dark and melancholic stuff of life.Īs wonderfully as these ideas are rendered, the book does have flaws. Oates mostly wants to bruise us, as she does her characters, to convey her point. These standout lines often act directly as the above mentioned "things", striking with impact at the reader. She employs her formidable writer's intuition often, creating elegant sentences which jostle for attention against the larger picture. Some characters are tight strokes of insight, while others are portrayed as vaguer blurs of background. "You Must Remember This" is built upon these "things." Oates flashes between these things (situations, feelings, injuries, insanities and impurities) with non-linear plotting, painting an abstract-expressionist theme. And things done but never named might well be forgotten" (p. "Though it was a truth Warren had picked up somewhere that things once said within a family cannot be unsaid.
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