![]() ![]() Renee’s self respect and self image comes from her ability to see those she works for and must be subservient to as stereotypes-cartoon characters or characters in a soap opera almost, not real persons with a rich interior life such as she has built for herself over the years of reading serious books. ![]() Anyone who is into the reading life and has worked with or worse for those that seem way inferior culturally will love Madame Renee! What I liked best about the book was its depiction of how a life of reading can shape a person. I did find the character of the 12 year old girl not really convincing in terms of her profound utterances-But then again Anne Frank was 13. As to the worship of Japanese culture-I think this is also to be taken in a kind of ironic mode. The Irony is in her mind she mocks the occupants of the building for not seeing her as a whole person whereas she does the same thing to them without knowing it. I think a reader needs to see through this as part of the effects of the limits of Renee’s mind and education. ![]() Yes Renee does somehow reduce the people she sees in the building to stereotypes just as she reduces herself to one. ![]()
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