Rather than just repeat my post for chapters 1 and 2, let me keep this short and sweet, as I only have one quick question to ask....
What do we think happened to Grigg's father at that party?
01/29/2008
Reflecting on what I had read to so far, it occured to me that there is no way this author is married (although potentially previously married and now divorced), and I think that affects not only her content (the closest thing to marriage in the book being a divorce) and perhaps the realism of some of her characters. To confirm I looked her up on Wikipedia. As I suspected, no husband, although she appears to be a single mother. Also, she seems to be of the feminist bent (not surprising had I pondered further). Here's the link, probably would be instructive if ya'll take a chance to check it out. Not that long of an article, and no spoilers for our book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler
To clarify, so as to hopefully avoid ruffling any feathers, or getting labeled a "smug married". I'm not saying that you have to have been married to be able to write realistic characters when it comes to matters of love. My point was more that I would have had a hard time believing that someone so cynical towards love could be in a marriage. Perhaps before the end of this book we will see some concession towards a positive side of love, but given what we have so far, I'm highly doubting it. Another question, along these lines, for discussion....
Does anyone yet have a feel for what the whole point of this book is? I see some possibilities, but I'm not sure I'm able to grasp where this whole thing is going or to what purpose, yet.
01/30/2008
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Okay, I finally read 3 and 4, so I will now begin commenting as I read all the posts.
I think Grigg's father is a self-involved prick, who hooked up with Hilary at the party.
Looking at the wikipedia article, apparently lots of Fowler's books deal with issues of feminism and alienation. Perhaps that's something to do with The Point. So far, I'm not sure, but it seems to perhaps be leading towards a sort of "huzzah, sisterhood" thing.
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