The Forstye Saga Part 8

The Forsyte Saga

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[jdlaw001]

I know that it seems Soames is the bad guy, but no matter how you dress it up, at the end of the day Irene is a horrible person who likes to play the "victim". To marry for money and not love, then *spoiler alert* runs off with her friend's fiancee. These actions are despicable.

Soames was too blinded by love or/and in denial to realise that Irene didn't care for him at all.

[OMGaNEWBIE]

I agree! Soames do not miss treat Irene. Yet, she does not even try to look at him with kind eyes. People in arranged marriages, who never even got a chance to meet before, eventually grow to love one another. To me, Irene is the villain in this life's scenario.

After all their year together, I would not blame Soames at all if he lost his temper with her. No one likes to be taken for a fool. He sure put up with her coldness for far to long.

[mrscrews2011]

Damian Lewis is sooo yummy

[isa69329]

@hallelujaable BRILLIANT!!

[isa69329]

@Ezrateach You are right: thats exactly what Galsworthy meant in his book; Irene is scared and sick every nignt when Soames comes close to her...but this is not shown in the film; this film does not really respect the author's intentions; Galsworthy would be very disapointed if he could see it.

[isa69329]

@tarynrose1000 I do agree with you; in the book, Soames reveals to be a very dominating, selfish husband and its understandable Irene cant stand it; she is in jail.

[isa69329]

@tarynrose1000 tout à fait juste!!!!

[kragary]

Whatever you think of Soames otherwise, it was terribly nice of him to hire June's fiancé.

[mariagonerlj]

@tarynrose1000 Yeah, more or less. But then, I've read the original books and Irene was a bleeding obvious Mary Sue that the author adored no matter what she did. She was a cause of much of her own misery in the books as well... but there, as in this series, she was totally absolved of any guilt because she is apparently oh so *pretty.* (And based on the author's own wife who committed adultery in her first marriage to boot!) So you can't really blame people for not liking Irene...

[mariagonerlj]

I still can't believe someone would pick that cold, dull fish Irene over vivacious, charming, wonderfully warm and sweet June! Seriously, Irene might be "beautiful" (in quotes for a reason, since I think her selfishness and chilly personality temper any beauty considerably) but June is just a sweet-heart! That architect was a total idiot and jerk for doing what he did to June-- as was Irene! How she's supposed to be the heroine of this story remains astonishing to me...

[Ezrateach]

I know one person who would be very distressed to read some of these posts--if he were alive. John Galsworthy was in the same league as Tolstoy and Flaubert in that he wrote complex female characters, including Irene. It is really mean especially for women to criticize her because today no one has to get married to a man she finds sexually incompatible--and that is a big part of Irene's unhappiness. She may seem mean, but try to imagine having sex with a person you find repulsive every night.

[taticunha24]

Yes, she was the idiot and he the arrogant that thought could make her change her feelings