Giant's Bread | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Giant's Bread.

Giant's Bread | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Giant's Bread.
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Giant's Bread is yet another of those stories which begin at the end and then go back to the beginning. In this case it is the life of a musician, a composer of genius…. [Miss Westmacott] traces the life of the composer from early childhood upwards, carefully emphasizing the influences of heredity, sex, and environment. As a first novel the book has obvious merits, though at the same time it is crowded with faults. Pre-eminently Miss Westmacott is not yet sufficiently certain of herself to know what to put in and what to leave out. Her sense of selection is still undetermined. She has, also, a tendency to be always on the side of the angels (though, of course, of the modern angel) and some of her characters are a little grotesque. Mrs. Deyre, for example, mother of the future genius, is a little too good (or bad...

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