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What Sally Rooney’s Fiction Illuminates About Real-Life Marriage

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Watching Normal People by Katy Whitehead



They started watching Normal People, like everybody else, during the first lockdown. They’d been married three years at this point. She’d read two of Rooney’s novels, and both of her published stories (as well as much of the criticism) so she knew it wasn’t going to be socialist in any major way––knew, too, that everyone was tired of Rooney’s women, with their self-loathing, masochistic (anti-feminist?) tendencies. But her real problem with the young I

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