7/4/2023 0 Comments A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch![]() ![]() I did not fall desperately in love with Georgie I considered myself by then too old for the desperation and extremity which attends a youthful love. Martin, who’s rather patronizing to Georgie, brushes over her disappointments, her loneliness, her needs… ![]() The two women are polar opposites, and by the end of an afternoon of blissful love with Georgie, Martin is practically purring like a cat. Privately, he considers himself very happily married and it’s clear that Antonia and Georgie occupy some sort Ying-Yang design in Martin’s life (and mind). ![]() ![]() Martin admits to himself that he “misled Georgie about the success” of his marriage. Christmas is approaching, and for Georgie it’s not an easy time as she won’t be seeing Martin he’ll be spending a quiet holiday with his wife of 11 years, Antonia. Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head opens with our smug married narrator, claret merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon, winding up a languorous afternoon with his much younger mistress, Georgie. In my own marriage I early established myself as the one who took rather than gave.” A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. “In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. ![]()
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