What do you think?
Rate this book
The Echo And The Nemesis
Unknown Binding
13 people want to read
About the author
Jean Stafford
100 books94 followersJean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
April 11, 2024
goddamn.
October 1, 2017
The only other person to have reviewed this short story respectively ascribed the titular roles of the Echo and the Nemesis to Sue & Ramona, but I believe that it may have been the other way around.
Ramona is a haunting, disfigured echo of her twin, Martha—which, like, I'm still confused by whether or not there was an actual twin—and Sue plays a foil, or nemesis, to Ramona's Echo. That's not to say that I felt like Ramona was the true heroine of this story—Ramona's a shitstain of a human being—but this is just how I interpreted it.
I dunno. Maybe the roles are interchangeable since, yeah, Sue really lacked a voice in this short story.
This story was recommended to me by my phone, if you can believe that. I had written a note to myself on my phone three years ago to read this short story along with Marianne Moore's poem "Marriage," and I really don't remember why.
The Echo and the Nemesis was a lovely piece of writing, but it's also really infuriating. I felt horrible for poor Sue, and I hope she finds peace with another friend.
I also don't feel like I was in the right frame of mind to read this story, nor to write this review. Whatever. I'm going to read the other review to pilfer some wisdom that I more than likely missed.
Ramona is a haunting, disfigured echo of her twin, Martha—which, like, I'm still confused by whether or not there was an actual twin—and Sue plays a foil, or nemesis, to Ramona's Echo. That's not to say that I felt like Ramona was the true heroine of this story—Ramona's a shitstain of a human being—but this is just how I interpreted it.
I dunno. Maybe the roles are interchangeable since, yeah, Sue really lacked a voice in this short story.
This story was recommended to me by my phone, if you can believe that. I had written a note to myself on my phone three years ago to read this short story along with Marianne Moore's poem "Marriage," and I really don't remember why.
The Echo and the Nemesis was a lovely piece of writing, but it's also really infuriating. I felt horrible for poor Sue, and I hope she finds peace with another friend.
I also don't feel like I was in the right frame of mind to read this story, nor to write this review. Whatever. I'm going to read the other review to pilfer some wisdom that I more than likely missed.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews