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The Dutch House reviewed by The Freudian Couch
It took me two days of subliminal thinking when I transcribed my notes and highlights from my Kindle to a Google document before I landed on what I think is the central theme of The Dutch House: mothers and maternal love.
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The Dutch House reviewed by The Freudian Couch
We learn that two significant characters love Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. This extremely popular novel published in 1980 is about, my research tells me, "[f]amily, memory, loss, transience, search for a place to belong"
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The Dutch House review by The Freudian Couch
The novel also portrays a moving sibling relationship with the narrator saying elsewhere: "[t]he story of my sister was the only one I ever meant to tell." Maybe it is about brothers and sisters?
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The Dutch House reviewed by The Freudian Couch
The title leads us to think that it is about a specific house with the narrator remarking "[t]he house was the story", but is it really about home and belonging?
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The Dutch House reviewed by The Freudian Couch
When I finished Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House late one night, I reflected on the central theme of the book. It was surely not an account of the Dutch people, for the novel is set in Philadelphia and New York City.
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