![]() The violence (both subtle and overt) is startling and seems too unreasoned.īut stick with it. ![]() After thirty pages someone asked me how the book was so far and the only word that came to mind was bizarre. The night was near at hand.” - but the characters are rendered so abstruse by it that it feels slightly maddening. From far away came the sound of the bugle, clarified by distance and echoing in the woods with a lost hollow tone. There was a chill in the air and a light, pure wind. The descriptions of the setting benefit from this and become starkly beautiful - “Then suddenly the sun was gone. It starts intriguingly enough, with the promise of a murder involving the central characters (“two officers, a soldier, two women, a Filipino, and a horse.”), but McCullers’ prose is so cold and distant that it makes the plot inaccessible to the reader. What is disappointing about it is that it takes about fifty pages (the majority of the novella) to get involved in the characters and the plot. With its short page count, Reflections in a Golden Eye is more of a novella than a novel. The participants of this tragedy were: two officers, a soldier, two women, a Filipino, and a horse.” ![]() ![]() “There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed. ![]()
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