Why Sally Rooney’s radical Normal People reminds me most of the decidedly unradical Alice Munro GlobeArts
There has been a mountain of media coverage of Sally Rooney and her two novels, coverage that inevitably includes the assertion that she is “the first great millennial novelist," and also that she’s Irish, and a feminist, and a Marxist. All of which likely gives you an image of the 28-year-old Rooney as something of a radicalYet the writer whose work most echoes in my mind when I read Rooney is the decidedly unradical Alice Munro.
The only label that Rooney, born in 1991, is given more frequently than the other M-word is “millennial” and her characters have a lack of engagement with ideas of career and ambition and work that may seem alien to older readers. Marianne asks a friend “if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work – to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money.
When she finds herself socially exiled at Trinity, she accepts it comfortably. When she finds her way back to Connell, the third time, she realizes she gets something else from him – but she’s not sure what it is. “He understood it wasn’t necessary to hurt her: he could let her submit willingly, without violence. This all seemed to happen on the deepest level of her personality.
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