Emily: In the last installment of our Summer of Bad Books Club, I asked what characteristics a Good Woman has in the world of My Sweet Audrina. The ways in which VC Andrews and, by extension, Audrina, attempts to classify women’s behavior is fascinating, deeply flawed, and, contradictorily, a bizarrely accurate reflection of what it is like to be an actual 12-year-old girl. \n
My Sweet Audrina
. The ways in which VC Andrews and, by extension, Audrina, attempts to classify women’s behavior is fascinating, deeply flawed, and, contradictorily, a bizarrely accurate reflection of what it is like to be an actual 12-year-old girl.First, there’s the character of Audrina, surrounded by women her father has labeled bad, forced to sit in a dead girl’s rocking chair to somehow inherit her “gifts,” which seem tied to her womanhood.
But the third group I envision grappling with the question of ideal womanhood is the legion of pubescent girls who read this book at Audrina’s age, myself included, while trying to figure out how to be a woman worthy of love and admiration, like the first and best Audrina and not the cast-off, jealous villain with the second-prettiest hair, like Vera.In the world of VC Andrews, a woman has to first be beautiful in order to be good.
And finally, a good woman wants love but never sex, or at least she doesn’t know she wants sex until she finds love. Vera and Aunt Ellsbeth have both used their runner-up beauty in an attempt to secure less precarious existences—Vera in the affair she brags about with the piano teacher, who she hopes will take her away to New York City, and Aunt Ellsbeth in her failed attempt to win Audrina’s father.
But is it truly wrong to put one’s own needs first? Audrina isn’t so sure when she meets Sylvia. The novel seems positioned to grapple with this question in the coming chapters as Audrina ostensibly grows older, deals with her sexual feelings for her attractive neighbor while keeping those desires hidden from her violent, sex-obsessed father, and becomes a parent to a child that, according to the text, repulses her.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
What Prince William and Kate Middleton could have planned for the summer holidays with their childrenHELLO! takes a look at what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge could get up to this summer with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis
Read more »
For Maine Lobstermen, a Perfect Storm Threatens the Summer SeasonOFF THE COAST OF MAINE -- As he pulled alongside one of his lobster pots, marked by a red and yellow buoy on Penobscot Bay, Mike Hutchings extracted and measured several of the crustaceans that would contribute to his 130-pound catch that day. It was a decent haul but his assessment of the fishing season
Read more »
8 delicious burger recipes to make this summer, from food experts and top chefsWith recipes from Andrew Zimmern, Giada De Laurentiis, Martha Stewart and more, you've got a summer's worth of burgers just waiting to be flipped.
Read more »
Fewer will attend camp this summer; some camps won't surviveCamp Winnebago has weathered all manner of health scares from polio to the swine flu, and it wasn't about to let the coronavirus stop the fun. But the overnight camp for kids in Maine is going to be the exception this summer in the U.S.
Read more »
Hot Hits: 20 Best Songs to Jam Out to This Summer (So Far) | V MagazineHot Hits 🔥🎵 | Here Are The 20 Best Songs To Jam Out To This Summer (So Far):
Read more »