APS TOGETHER
Day 26
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 26
December 1, 2023 by Yiyun Li
Amy is becoming more and more interesting. She reads Balzac instead of the silly novels with unrealistic love stories; she thinks about literature and its future; she gathers information from all sorts of channels. She is ahead of her time. I always imagine her as an agent or a publisher in our contemporary life.
“Love is the most insignificant thing in most women’s lives.”
Amy is not wrong. In a sense, she is Shakespeare’s Rosalind in the 1880s: levelheaded, sharp-eyed, and yet much less willing to dream than Rosalind.
“Of course I have no choice really. And I ought to have a choice.”
That’s a major key statement from Amy. One has to admire her, however unwillingly.
