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If you enjoy old books that show the stark contrast between a life devoted to God and one lived on one's own, you will like this. It also shows the value of training daughters to make a living just in case they must.It's the story of a family who was quite rich, but lost nearly everything in the stock market during the Great Depression.
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What can she do? Edward Payson Roe 9781177095501 Books Reviews
Awesome book with wonderful insight on Jesus and our relationship to Him.
For Christians interested in the nineteenth century in the U.S., this story is fascinating, especially in regard to the life of the poor versus the wealthy, and even more especially in regard to the life of the poor versus the wealthy woman. I liked the heroine very much, and that always makes the story better.
This is the third novel I’ve read by Rev. Edward Payson Roe. This particular novel is not included in his collections—and for good reason. Like many novels, it hasn’t aged particularly well. The conversations between the lead character, Edith Allen, and her dark-skinned servant, Hannibal, are nearly unendurable for any reader, and offensive in the extreme to persons of color.
That isn’t, of course, to say that the novel doesn’t accurately reflect the attitude of wealthy people toward their servants in the 1870s. It is probably spot-on. But this story was written by a pastor, who was, I presume, endeavoring to combat racial prejudice, among other social ills, with his didactic novels. What Can She Do? labors under the heavy burden of teaching several valuable lessons at once—(1) better race relations, (2) the unhappy results of failing to train one’s children to be self-sufficient, (3) the danger of young women entering a big city without protectors, (4) the difficulties a “fallen” woman faces, after her false lover abandons her, (5) the stigma of having a drunk in one’s family, (6) the necessity of being practical as well as idealistic (see our hero), (7) the sin of selling oneself to the highest bidder, even if it is for the sake of protecting loved ones, and (8) turning to God in your hour of trouble.
That’s a lot for one novel to accomplish—and this one fails signally in every instance. Part of the problem is in Rev. Roe’s choice of main character. Edith is probably the least interesting character in the story. Her love interest—if you can call him that—is a fascinating character, but he is utterly wasted, being absent for most of the book.
One chapter, Zell, is particularly powerful in its imagery, where Edith’s younger sister, Zell is abandoned by her false lover when she sickens with smallpox. But Zell’s fall from grace creates a plot twist that Rev. Roe clearly isn’t prepared to deal with—or can’t deal with, because he must stick to the Victorian formula of viewing any “fallen” woman as an outcast. Zell conceals herself from society, of her own free will, once she returns to her family, but Rev. Roe soon kills her off, probably because he can’t think of a single decent occupation to give her.
When Christians speak of forgiving these “more sinned against than sinning” creatures, what do they mean exactly? If I forgive a debt you owe me, is it not the same as forgetting it?
When Jesus told the adulteress, “Neither do I condemn thee go, and sin no more” did he mean, “go and sin no more, but know that from this day forward you are no longer a fit companion for respectable people. You must live the lonely life of the sackcloth-and-ashes penitent, or worse, find associates that have fallen as far as you have in the eyes of society. For this single sad misstep, you must, for the rest of your life, bear the brand of your sin as the first son of Adam bore his.”
Apparently, Victorian Christians had a different understanding of forgiveness. By her sad misstep, Zell loses not only all opportunity to marry, but she is shunned by respectable families, as if she had a contagious disease they were terrified of contracting. And all because she trusted the man she ran away with to marry her.
Rev. Roe is a talented writer, capable of vividly painting even the most mundane scenes. It’s only when he attempts to introduce Christ to his characters that he loses his way. His heroines go from unbelieving heathens to disciples of Christ in the short span of a single chapter. The transition is so abrupt that it appears contrived. See Rev. Roe’s first book, Barriers Burned Away (1872), for another problematic conversion. This may be a difficulty all Christian writers face when bringing their message to a mixed audience. If they lay on the heavy doctrine before their readers get attached to their main characters, they risk losing their audience. So they wait until a point where their readers are sufficiently attached to their main characters to introduce Christ into the story. Sometimes, they wait too long.
If you want to see a master Christian writer at work, read The Wide, Wide World (1850) by Susan Werner. This book, acclaimed as America’s first bestseller, went through fourteen editions in the two years after its release. It is still widely read today, despite being more than a century and a half old. Ellen Montgomery’s faith in God, at first no larger than a mustard seed, steadily grows in size throughout her life. Each hardship she faces only strengthens and renews that faith. Because in the Wide, Wide World, Ellen has but One on whom she can truly rely.
If you enjoy old books that show the stark contrast between a life devoted to God and one lived on one's own, you will like this. It also shows the value of training daughters to make a living just in case they must.
It's the story of a family who was quite rich, but lost nearly everything in the stock market during the Great Depression.
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