Return of the Native Mallory Stickler post 4
Okay well, I’m not very good at connecting stuff, because they’re never in-depth connections, so beware Mr. Shank. I guess since this is the last post till Anil’s (anal’s?) Ghost, will make this post yellow and pink honor of Spongebob and Patrick. Btw, I’m watching Spongebob right now, it’s the one when Patrick gets a nose. 
Onto the blog. I thought it was pretty funny when Diggory found the glove that belonged to Thomasin. It sounds exactly like Cinderella. Before she became rich and famous and in love, Cinderella was a girl that was treated unfairly and very unhappy. Thomasin was very unhappy at this point in the story because she had just lost her husband when he died in the dam thing. Diggory, whom she has growing feelings for, holds a dance for the heath, in which Thomasin attends. Just like in Cinderella, there is a dance, or in Cinderella’s case, a ball. After the ball, Cinderella has to be home at a certain time. She is in such a hurry that she loses her glass slipper and Prince (Charming?) finds it. Sorry, it’s been a while since I’ve watched Cinderella. Anyway, Thomasin loses her glove at the dance. She sees Diggory outside waiting for a girl who has lost her glove. Thomasin thinks it’s outrageous that he would wait around for hours just for a girl that lost her glove. It turns out that the glove is her’s. In Cinderella, she thinks it is outrageous that the Prince is searching all over the town just for the perfect girl that fits in that perfect glass slipper. When the prince finally finds the girl that perfectl fits into the the slipper, they fall in love a live happily ever after. In Return of the Native, Thomasin and Diggory fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after in the heath. I’m pretty sure this book was written before Cinderella came out, but I thought it was a cute connection.
Now a wonderful question. This story is a Cinerella story for Thomasin and Diggory, but what about Clym? He was loyal the whole story, but he ends up very unhappy. Would yo have changed the ending to this story? Who would you have matched up whom?
PEACE! Until Anil.
Category: Connector, Per 3 RotN Con 5 comments »
March 7th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I don’t think that the ending was fair to Clym. He seemed that he would deserve the ending before Thomasin because she wasn’t as big a character. I probably would have changed the ending so that Damon dies and Thomasin lives happily ever after and also that Eustacia didn’t die so that Clym could have his happy ending to. Thomasin’s loss is not as great as Clym because now she can be with the man she liked ever since the beginning of the story whereas Clym only loved Eustacia and now he has no one.
~Laurisa
March 7th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
HAHAHAHA wow that was interesting, anyway…
I don’t think that i would have chnaged the end of the story so much as I would have changed the begining of the story. If Eustacia would have never lived in the Heath then none of this would have happened. She never would have met Wildeve so he and Thomasin would have been happy. Clym would have come home and married another girl from the Heath, one that wouldn’t have casued so much trouble. Then everyone would have been happy and Mrs. Yeobright would still be alive.
Adam
March 7th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Yes! I really like the idea of not having Eustacia in the story at all. She just caused trouble and make everyone unhappy in the end. She was a good character to watch though, as you saw how untrue she was to her husband and how selfish she was. It also wasn’t fair to Clym that he fell in love with her because he only got hurt by her, and in the end he was still unhappy when she died becuase he still loved her. I was happy when she finally died because she sort of deserved to.
Mallory
March 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
It sounds kind of mean, but I think that Eustacia and Damon got what was coming to them. Despite this, it is absolutely ridiculous to say that Eustacia shouldn’t be in the book at all. (ADAM and LAURISA) While they were beatin’ round the bush the entire book, messing in other people’s mariages, I think that for the story to have the impact that it did, they would have to have been present. If Diggory had married Thomasin without having to struggle for it through the entire book, it would have been meaningless. Instead, hardy creates a meaningful end that sticks with the reader because they know of the relations between all of the characters. When the reader feels that connection, they care more about the book. In order for that connection to be made, the book needed characters like Eustacia and Damon. The reader had to feel sorry for Clym and sympathize with Diggory. I wouldn’t have changed anything, because the interactions between the characters make the story more meaningful.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
That Above Comment was Brian Wawrzyniak’s. Im not logged in, so I can’t edit it. Woops