I'm late in posting this blog - for which I am terribly sorry - but I wanted to make sure that I really understood the story. I kept getting a little lost in the telling because of the structure of the novel.
The story itself was upsetting because I think at the core of my being, I really want to believe in the goodness of mankind. This book, unfortunately, did not hold out a lot of hope for me. The opening line about it being the "saddest story" rings true to me to some degree. I think more than it being so sad is that it is really disappointing to me. That probably is the nature of several things written during this period. It is frustrating for me to read of the way that life seemed to take on such a feeling of hopelessness. The story was sad, but I think I am struck more by the fact that there seems to be no hope of redemption or progress. That is the part of the story that was so sobering to me.
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