Sunday, June 15, 2008

Poor Greek god

Did you at any point believe that Cassandra might end up with Stephen?
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7 comments:

Erin said...

Totally. I kept waiting for it. I was surprised when it didn't happen. I felt sorry for poor Stephen, but I do think an impromptu change-of-heart by Cassandra would've been a little too convenient.

4:23 PM, June 16, 2008
kc said...

I thought so, too.

I thought the author did a nice job with that situation — showing how Cassandra really started to notice him only when others did. It's a common type of vanity, isn't it? She realizes just how gorgeous he is and how devoted he is, but her feelings for him remain sisterly. I think, as Erin said, were the author going for a tidy, satisfying ending, she would have paired these two up and sent them off to Hollywood.

1:45 PM, June 17, 2008
kc said...

One of my favorite lines in the book is how Stephen ends his letter to Cassandra (after the kiss in the woods):

XXXXXX but not until you want them.

1:47 PM, June 17, 2008
Erin said...

Yes! Stephen's devotion was lovely.

3:15 PM, June 17, 2008
rev amy said...

Perhaps it was because I liked Stephen so much more than Simon that I wanted Cassandra to wake up and hook up with him. But in the end he seemed to realize that any affection from her would be less than genuine and therefore something he didn't want.

I was dissapointed that he did succumb to Leda Fox-Cotton. His character seemed so much more noble than to have sex on the marble floor in her studio.

4:49 PM, June 17, 2008
kc said...

"to have sex on the marble floor in her studio."

Um, didn't they teach you in minister school that you shouldn't make the act you're condemning sound enticing?

5:50 PM, June 17, 2008
rev amy said...

Selling your soul should sound exciting, otherwise no one would ever do it.

11:11 AM, June 18, 2008

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