Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends.
A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. Bridges social circle to comprehend the existence of poverty is also represented through a reference to painting. Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. Bridge attempts to dissimulate its disturbing overtones by position ing her swan in a pool of water, thus hiding its feetpotential signifiers of aggressiveness or sexuality. With a surgeon's skill Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. In spare, whimsical, ironic prose, Connell exposes each and every one of their wrinkles and then, in the end, offers them to us as human beings to be cherished.Best-selling author Evan S. Bridge are forever human, forever vulnerable, forever pitiable. “A small masterpiece.” -Joyce Carol Oates Bridge, this novel is a classic portrait of a man, a marriage, and the manners and mores of a particular social class in the first half of twentieth–century America.
Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of respectability that cloaks the void within-not the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household. Walter Bridge is an ambitious Kansas City lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something-even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. The classic novel about a repressed upper–middle–class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times bestselling and Man Booker Prize winning author.
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