National Review, February 25th, 1991
MR. and Mrs. Bridge
Softenings
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is based on the two celebrated novels that Evan S. Connell wrote ten years apart. In Mrs. Bridge, he told the story from the point of view of the docile upper-middle-class housewife in Kansas City, who lives only for her prosperous lawyer husband and her children, two girls and a boy. Though she has finer stirrings and sometimes even the tiniest rebelliousness in the name of self-expression, these are quickly squelched (usually by herself) as she goes on being a genteelly frustrated but exemplary wife and mother. In Mr. Bridge, a decade la...
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