{"id":17,"date":"2022-02-14T01:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-02-14T01:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:20:51","slug":"week-6-sagans-bonjour-tristesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/2022\/02\/14\/week-6-sagans-bonjour-tristesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6- Sagan’s “Bonjour Tristesse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I chose to read Bonjour Tristesse by Fran<\/span>\u00e7<\/span>oise Sagan, which was a novel about the relationship between a daughter and her father, Raymond, along with Anne, who is a woman he plans to marry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, I found it was quite odd that <\/span>C\u00e9cile \u201cknew his need of a woman\u201d (6) and \u201chis fancy changed every six months\u201d (6). I also felt quite bad for C\u00e9cile to have to know this playboy side of her father. As it may be difficult for her to see Raymond with so many women, and it seems to also negatively contribute to her perspective on relationships as she found the \u201cconception of quick, tempestuous and passing love affairs\u2026 enticing.\u201d (11). Thus, this may have been part of the reason that led C\u00e9cile to manipulate and use Cyril, who truly loved her. As she didn\u2019t seem to know what a healthy relationship seemed like since she \u201cknew little of love\u201d (11) and had mainly witnessed her father\u2019s quick relationships with mistresses. Raymond also doesn\u2019t seem to consider how his relationships with mistresses would affect C\u00e9cile and he didn\u2019t seem to be discreet about them either. He doesn\u2019t seem to care about her and was more focused on his own life with his mistresses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Initially, I felt bad for C\u00e9cile due to her mother\u2019s passing and her father\u2019s actions and behaviors with other women, along with his inability to actually be a father. However, my sympathy started to fade away when she came up with a plan to break up Raymond and Anne\u2019s relationship and use Cyril\u2019s feelings for her as a part of the plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raymond\u2019s lack of proper parenting ultimately led to C\u00e9cile having freedom to do whatever she pleases, which definitely led her to being spoiled. She didn\u2019t mind too much of having Elsa with them since she knew Elsa\u2019s presence wouldn\u2019t effect her. However, Anne is seen as a threat to C\u00e9cile due to trying to take on a motherly figure to her and throwing some control into C\u00e9cile\u2019s life. Despite the fact that there were some actions Anne did that seemed to cross the line, such as making the comment regarding C\u00e9cile\u2019s weight and even slapping her. Which definitely didn\u2019t help decrease C\u00e9cile\u2019s hatred of her. C\u00e9cile was willing to do anything to keep the freedom lifestyle she had and she didn\u2019t seem to care about anyone else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My question for my classmates is if Raymond had tried to slowly introduce Anne and the idea of marrying her to C\u00e9cile, would she still have developed a hatred towards Anne and planned to break them up?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I chose to read Bonjour Tristesse by Fran\u00e7oise Sagan, which was a novel about the relationship between a daughter and her father, Raymond, along with Anne, who is a woman he plans to marry.\u00a0 Firstly, I found it was quite odd that C\u00e9cile \u201cknew his need of a woman\u201d (6) and \u201chis fancy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[16,13,23],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sagan","tag-family","tag-love","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tzrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}