Fiedler

In reading Fiedlers novel, i was very confused at many parts of the book, partially because i never read any of the stories that she mentions. In the preface, i love the fact that she tells the reader that everything she is saying is how she views things, and that she is not going to cite lines from books or other critics. her comparision of European literature to American literature i felt was also interesting. I really liked how she made the connection between the new sciences emerging all out once on page 32..."the series of events which includes the American and the French Revolutions, the invention of the novel, the rise of moden psychology and the triumph of the lyric in poery andds up to a psychic revolution as well as a social one". This was a key point that stuck out in my mind, that i had never known before becuase history was never of interest to me. her discussion in chapter 11 about the "innocnce via the ocular initian is bafflement and nausea" (345) was another subject taht caught my attention. in this paragraph she further discusses how children are often forced into adult hood by the things in life taht they witness.