I'm actually quite willing to forgive sexism from old books. Remember, the book was written in 1936. It was a little after women got voting rights in the US, an

I'm actually quite willing to forgive sexism from old books. Remember, the book was written in 1936. It was a little after women got voting rights in the US, and it wasn't until WW2 when women were taking over the factories that equality seemed legit. Child marriage in my country wasn't only legal, it was encouraged at that time, because women were illiterate and "needed a good man". We've gone damn far in 3-4 generations. Books of the time were sexist. I was reading Aristotle's Poetics and it struck out as sexist - he said that women and slaves made for bad protagonists because of their lower class, unless it's a story about people in a lower class. Old books have a lot of good forgotten things, but they're usually much harder reads because you have to mentally filter out these things.