The 1700-1939 Book Club! discussion

This is for the discussion of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas chapters 23-33.

I am still enjoying the book! There is continuously something going on to keep you interest. I was shocked at Athos's story of his past. Also I am not liking D'Artagan for being in love with Madame Bonacieux then Lady Clark and using Kitty.

Yeah, poor Kitty! D'Artagnan has no compunction whatsoever about using her. If a guy behaved that way in reality we'd call him a dawg!

I can't help liking Milady, though, she is such a nasty little vixen (and like most women in that position she has good reasons in her past for being that way).

I have to wonder, given the way women are depicted in the novel, if Milady is a victim of a misogynistic culture.

Definitely a victim or rather, a survivor. I she's surviving in the only way she knows how. I like her line (paraphrasing here) something like, "I do not cry. I get vengeance!"
Can't help myself. I like Scarlett better than Melanie in Gone With the Wind too. And I cheered for Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
The evil characters are often so much more interesting.

I am in the part too hwo was Kitty is using for a purpose to reach the Milady...