![]() ![]() ![]() For Eligible features such dexterous twists as turning officious Catherine de Bourgh into a wise doyenne of second-wave feminism and thus repositioning the original’s attitude toward powerful women. Fielding did in Bridget Jones.” Again, I protest. ![]() ![]() Sittenfeld “also fails,” Kakutani writes, “to work the sort of entertaining improvisations on her material that Ms. A droning suitor morphs into an awkward tech bro. Darcy hold but neurosurgeon? Would modern-day Lydia be anything other than a gorgeous, foul-mouthed, Crossfit-obsessed party girl who sneers at Liz, a writer, “Do you ever pass up a chance to use a big word? Or do you find that circumlocution always magnifies life’s conviviality?” A subtly competitive ball becomes an overtly combative game night. Heckerling deftly used in Clueless.” Here I must disagree, as Sittenfeld’s analogies could not be more delightfully apt. Sittenfeld struggles to update the plot of Pride and Prejudice,” Kakutani says, “failing to find the effortless sorts of analogies Ms. What are the lady Eligible’s faults? “Ms. ![]()
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