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Production Date | 1915 | ||
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A young woman (Rose) and man (Rodney) fall in love on sight, and marry soon thereafter. Since he is wealthy and a very successful lawyer, they live in high society. Rose comes to realize she is more a mistress than an equal partner with her husband in their life. She realizes that until she can be on an equal footing with him -- to be his friend, as well as his lover -- they will grow apart and live an empty life like so many of their fancy friends. She radically separates from him, in order to create a persona for herself that will be an equal match to his brilliance.
Creating your self is the only way to live.
Life is wonderful as long as you realize that life has to be earned the hard way.
Webster (in one of his early books "Calumet 'K'", was a favorite of Ayn Rand.
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Discussion: Real Adventure, The
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my reactionsI think this novel by Webster is better in many respects to "Calumet K". They are quite different, but "The Real Adventure is a more serious work. The reason is the complex psychological writing in the book. This book is both a topnotch example of romantic realism, because it is both a preeminent novel of realism, as well as being intensely intensely romantic, in that the whole theme and plot-theme is about will and volition. (It's also romantic in the other sense, in that the story line is entirely related to the romance of a somewhat free-spirited lawyer and his even more spirited wife.) The book may also be considered a psychological suspense novel because it is intensely psychological -- all about creating a self, a well-developed adult self, while the structure of the novel is a thriller in the sense of being held in suspension about how this long-ranging development will work out. It's also slyly a women's movement novel (in its original good sense of pro-individual-women's-right to live an independent life). In style, it is somewhat uneven, because there are times it seems to lapse into a simple mindset about psychological types, but that is definitely a minority of the time. Whereas the majority of the book is quite sophisticated psychologically.