Before I began reading Damage I read the title and automatically assumed that this book was going to be about a woman who was deceived by a man and hurt and now considered herself damage and was obsessed with damaging others, boy was I wrong!
In the beginning we meet a man who grew up with good parents, good morals, and who grew up and found his perfect match but is always making a reference to death and about a person knowing when they are going to die. He and his wife of many years had cultivated the perfect family and home, they had two children: a boy and a girl and they seemed satisfied with the life they were living. the son Martyn becomes a journalist and is some what of a play boy. He meets and forms a relationship with Anna a very older mysterious woman.
This is where I got lost- Martyn's father and Anna are having an affair?
I guess i missed or over read in the part where any flirting or agreement to have the affair happened, but in the end they do and at the end of chapter we learn that the person who is DAMAGED is Anna from a past personal experience she had with her brother, we learn that she is a very private person and Martyn does not ask her to be otherwise in fact he doesn't ask any questions at all. I'm interested to see how the story unfolds....
The affair sort of sturs up instantly. When she introduces herself to him at a party he feels a connection to her and thinks about her a lot after that. They have sex when she calls his house one day and he says that he will meet her at her home in aboht a half an hour and from the the relations continue. It was interesting to read about what your first thoughts about the book were. It is true that Anna is damaged but I feel that eventually the narrators entire family will be damaged due to the affair. Great Post!
ReplyDeleteI got lost too! I had to go back and reread the chapter to figure out how I suddenly got to Martyn's father having an affair with Anna. As Melanie said, it does happen fast since they hardly know each other and I feel that the way it was worded as well makes it kind of hard to catch. Anna being such a damaged woman is what will make this story unfold disastrously. I swear, why do people have affairs?
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