![]() ![]() If anyone is to blame in McEwan's book, it is a repressive society, so freaked out by sex it keeps everyone in the dark about the most basic human functions. ![]() Since they have no language, it is a catastrophe which derails two lives. The underlying issue is there in the first sentence: If only these two had language to discuss what was happening, perhaps they could have worked it out. Over and over again, as Florence and Edward thrash their way through a sexual disaster for which they have no context, McEwan keeps up that dry distant tone. ![]() The first sentence of Ian McEwan's 2007 novella On Chesil Beach establishes the tone: "They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible." It's author as social anthropologist. ![]()
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