The Drinking Den (The Gin Palace; The Dram Shop) PDF Emile Zola

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She has weaknesses, certainly, but they are, if anything, ‘respectable’ ones. She is slightly greedy and self-indulgent; she is too tolerant of her husband’s frailties and generally too easygoing; most of all, she fails to apprehend the extent of the threat that Lantier represents to her happiness. But these are minor faults. There is no inherent vice in Gervaise (as Zola insistently tells us there is in Nana). She is clearly a victim of circumstances.

These circumstances can and ought to be changed: this is the moral that Zola wanted readers to draw from the book, as he insisted in his letter to Albert Millaud (written in response to Millaud’s article in Le Figaro on 7 September 1876):

… if you wish to know the lesson that will emerge by itself from The Drinking Den, I would put it more or less into the following terms: teach the worker in order to give him morals, remove him from the poverty in

• Book Name: The Drinking Den (The Gin Palace; The Dram Shop) pdf
• Author Name Emile Zola
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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