He married someone who loved the Dutch House. He took a divorce from an unstable wife who hated the Dutch House. Cyril, though absent toward his children, did little things for them. Sometimes, I feel she is worse than their absent father, Cyril Conroy.
Elna is the most pathetic character in the novel. If the author wanted to show her as a saint, she has failed miserably. Apart from being overshadowed by Danny, she is also overshadowed by her mother (Elna Conroy.)Īs for their mother, Elna Conroy, such a poorly portrayed character. She has no relationships to such an extent that we don’t even know sexual identity! She is on the cover page of the book & yet she isn’t even the highlight of the novel because we got Danny mansplaining everything in a crude manner. There are no efforts taken on her character! She studies maths, becomes an accountant & then work at a frozen vegetable shop forever. The author built so much scope for Maeve and never ended up using it. In her childhood, we see how much of a brilliant character she could have been. Danny Conroy is as drag as a character as they come. He mesmerises his love for his absent father. He talks about his education & how he became a doctor & then stopped being a doctor. But, ironically, he only tells his own life tale, ignoring Maeve completely. He claims he is writing the novel for his sister Maeve who is the only person he has. Throughout the novel, Danny comes off as self-absorbed, irrational, ambitionless & to a certain extent just so mortal. The narrator in the story is Danny Conroy, which was such a poor choice. Even after twenty years, Maeve & Danny meet to have deep conversations while sitting in a car in front to the House, re-visiting their past time & again. And ever since then, it becomes a part of them. It becomes the house from which Andrea throws out Maeve & Danny when their father dies. It becomes the House in which Andrea, their stepmother comes in with two of her children. It becomes the House from which their mother leaves.
To brief it, Maeve & Danny grow up in the Dutch House. All three of them are more parents to them than their real parents. We see Fluffy, the nanny Sandy, the housekeeper & Jocelyn, the cook. We see an absent father who keeps to himself. We see a distant mother who leaves them when they both are still kids. The Dutch House is the story of two siblings Maeve & Danny Conroy written across five decades. And yet, despite checking all these areas, ‘The Dutch House’ was a disappointment. I need all these areas to decide if I should buy or read a book. All these four criteria are as best as it can come. The author Ann Pachett’s books are always bestsellers. Also, it is recommended in every article that gives stellar book recommendations. Now, this book is rated at 4.17/5 on Goodreads. Hi Readers! I recently read ‘The Dutch House’ by Ann Patchett.
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