A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
The novel Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy intricately weaves the lives
of many different people into a connected series of individual plots that give
the reader an exciting view of life during World War II. Piercy connects the
lives of women and men, Jews and gentiles by using family ties and steamy love
affairs. The people have dramatically different profiles, some are rich some
are poor, some are Americans, some are French, some are with power while others
are persecuted, but everyone is connected by the war. War freed women by
allowing them to work in factories and defy their husbands by hiding resisting
French Jews. Piercy makes history exciting by making each character really
experience love and hate and the mundane daily struggles of the individual.
I completely enjoyed Gone to Soldiers, because several main characters
prevented me from getting bored and kept me reading to find out what was going
to happen to each......
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