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Have always felt that le Carre’s female characters are particularly good. Maybe this is one reason why!
by Gatsky 6y ago
Have always felt that le Carre’s female characters are particularly good. Maybe this is one reason why!
- ahartmetz 6y agoI felt that they are believably nuanced and not obviously "female as imagined by male", but their depth is, in most books, only hinted at because there isn't much text spent on them. So I would say what is there is good, but there isn't that much. The ones with the most detail are the female main character from The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Conny, the retired researcher. Conny is easily the most interesting. The estranged wife Anne is the main one about whom I really would have liked to read more. Did I forget someone?
- selimthegrim 6y agoShe gets a bit more of a look in in Smiley's People
- ahartmetz 6y agoI may not have read that one. I completely forgot about the main character of The Little Drummer Girl, Charlie. What a book! I cannot judge the realism of the main character because I myself don't understand women well enough to do that, haha. Presumably that's a book where the contribution of Le Carré's wife was crucial.
- jumpgrumpy 6y agoThe main protagonist in the Little Drummer 'girl'? Although I found her a bit irritating. Then there is the rather 'forgettable' main woman char in the Constant Gardener. I liked most of Carre's works (although there are some stinkers in his canon - the Night Manager was I though a terrible book - but apart from Connie and Wife Anne I can barely remember any decent female characters at all.