Book Cases: Mr. "Easy-going"

Saturday, August 30, 2008

What did you think of Tom?

Erin said...: I thought it was hard to get a good read on Tom. I couldn't believe he wouldn't even talk to Roseanne or see her at all after the priest ratted her out. That seemed so harsh. How could you treat your spouse like that?; 10:39 AM, September 02, 2008
kc said...: I didn't think much of him after he treated Roseanne that way, even though she always spoke highly of him. It was incomprehensible how he couldn't face her again and give her an opportunity to explain. Even if the dumb priest told him some horrendous lies and he believed them, how he could not give her an opportunity to respond? Maybe the priest, hell-bent on ruining Roseanne, feared that Tom would relent and forgive if he saw Roseanne face to face, so he told him that the worst thing he could do was ever to give her the time of day?

I have to wonder how deeply he really loved her if he would sacrifice her so entirely, so mercilessly, to such a fate.; 1:56 PM, September 02, 2008
Erin said...: Yes, exactly. She spoke so highly of him, and she didn't seem to hold it against him that he treated her so unfairly. But it's incomprehensible to me, too. Even with all the factors -- the religious difference, the power of the priest, Tom's political passions -- how could he forsake his wife so suddenly and completely?; 3:36 PM, September 02, 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008