July 17, 2011
Page 72
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back."
This quote describes Briony too perfectly. Briony's tragic flaw is she is so self-absorbed that she can't separate imaginary things from things in real life. When Briony starts to wander around in her daydreaming world, it is very hard for her to "come back" into the real world because she is living in a different world that she understands better. One obstacle Briony must overcome through her life is keeping her writing and non-realistic world from the world she actually lives in.
Hm this is interesting to think about. Just last night I watched "Sucker Punch" and in that film it's the opposite--imagination empowers the protagonist, but there she knows when to turn it on and off...
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