Book Report on the Go Between - 1676 Words

The Go-between By L.P. Hartley Leslie Poles Hartley was born in 1895; he studied in Oxford and was officer in France during World War 1. He was novelist, short-story writer and critic. His reputation as a writer was established with the publication of the trilogy of novels, The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), The Sixth Heaven (1946), and Eustace and Hilda (1947). He died in 1972. The Go-between was first published in 1953, the following year it received the Heinemann Foundation Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. Its film version was also very successful and won the principal award at the Festival de Cannes in 1973. This book is a fiction, its a memory story: a man in his sixties looks back on his boyhood of the middle class†¦show more content†¦Hartley begins The Go-Between: with The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. This book is memory like in The Glass Menagerie; it is a look through the dusty memory of a sixty years old man. Another key theme is class distinction and its warping effects upon the life of one small boy. Hes from a disadvantaged family and is invited in an aristocratic family. The father and the fiancà © are aware of the girls affair with the farmer, but do nothing about it. They are confident she will do the right thing in the end, and she does. Why dont you marry Ted, the boy asks the young woman. Because I cant, she replies. Then why are you marrying Trimmington? Because I must. She understands, and she is tough enough to endure. Indeed, at the end of the film she turns up years later as an old lady very much in the image of her mother. An extra theme is man-woman relationships and love. Marian and Ted are in love with each other and have an ardent affair together. Lord Trimmingham probably loved her too because he married her although she was pregnant and Leo felt in love with her as soon as he saw her. 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