I did feel a bit for Ann. Usually I think Forest portrays her annoyingness rather well, but on this occasion I couldn't help feeling - well, why shouldn't she be a nurse and not a concert pianist if she wants? What's wrong with being useful? And why don't Nick and Lawrie just back off?
I think it's partly my annoyance at the whole Rowan/Trennels storyline that has put me in sympathy with Ann, who isn't going to do anything naval or family, but just head off and do her own thing. Nicola's attitude to her seems really uncalled for - Ann isn't being insincere in a sickly Unity Logan way, she's just saying what she feels, and she doesn't even especially want to do that except that her sisters force her into it. And she's not an especially good pianist anyway, and knows it.
I suppose nursing was a very conventional female occupation at the time - maybe AF takes against it for that reason? I certainly used to grit my teeth and decide not to be a teacher every time somebody said what a good occupation it was for a woman, when I was a child. There were all those "nurse" books for girls too, weren't there? Maybe there are all kinds of overtones around nursing as a fitting profession for females, that the more adventurous Marlows are resenting, that I'm just not getting.
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Re: Lawrie's Sort of Day/Ann's future career
Date: 2014-08-03 10:08 am (UTC)I think it's partly my annoyance at the whole Rowan/Trennels storyline that has put me in sympathy with Ann, who isn't going to do anything naval or family, but just head off and do her own thing. Nicola's attitude to her seems really uncalled for - Ann isn't being insincere in a sickly Unity Logan way, she's just saying what she feels, and she doesn't even especially want to do that except that her sisters force her into it. And she's not an especially good pianist anyway, and knows it.
I suppose nursing was a very conventional female occupation at the time - maybe AF takes against it for that reason? I certainly used to grit my teeth and decide not to be a teacher every time somebody said what a good occupation it was for a woman, when I was a child. There were all those "nurse" books for girls too, weren't there? Maybe there are all kinds of overtones around nursing as a fitting profession for females, that the more adventurous Marlows are resenting, that I'm just not getting.