![]() ![]() ![]() Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends. A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. With a surgeon's skill Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. ![]() Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. Bridge, came as a result of the late-1990 release of the Merchant-Ivory film which combined the two books. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. As it happened, the requests for 1959’s Mrs. ![]()
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