Guilty Pleasures

   Evelina, although seeming to take the shape of a soap opera with the many twists and turns of society, differed greatly from other narratives we’ve xplored through its unusually wild circumstances. The young Evelina is thrust into society and into the hands of wolves, mostly because she is so beautiful. Seemed like an episode of the O.C. – just over 200 years earlier. 

   I do confess I used to watch the O.C., and began to have a relative attachment to the characters on the show. Similarly, I did grow an attachment to Evelina, and she did have more of an affect on me than the characters of the other stories we’ve read - I didn’t shake my head at the protagonists naivite or  snicker at a man in tears, but actually felt sympathetic. 

   Evelina was not quite as gripping as the O.C or the hills, but nonetheless it was enjoyable.

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