![]() The Lover is not written in chronological order. From there, the novel follows their love affair and the challenges that their ‘forbidden love’ endures. One day as she is on the ferry going to boarding school in Saigon, an older Chinese business man notices her and offers her a ride to school. When her brother dies, so does apart of her. She describes him as being warm, they are able to find happiness when around each other together. The only person in her family that she connects with is her younger brother whom dies while she is away at school. Her brother is a brutal, cold person whom she doesn’t care for. Her mother is described as a bitter old woman that goes in and out of manic mood swings. Her father dies when she is very young so it is up to her mother to maintain the family. The novel tells the story of her life in Colonial French Indochina during the early 1930s. The main character, Duras, is a young French girl that lives in Indochina. The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel that presents events from Duras’s life but also plays with fiction. ![]()
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