yuhilda
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In the book review, please see http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...both-sides-now, in the second to the last paragraph:
"The point is that happiness is always threatened by abstractions, of whatever time or political tendency. In mid-century London, for a woman like Anna, Marx and Freud and self-absorbed boyfriends happened to be the forms that oppression took. Today, there are different invitations to self-destruction. Feminism, for instance."
What is the relation between the sentences before "Today" and after "Today"? Does it mean that:
Anna had self-destructed in the 1960s because of the oppression exerted by Marx, Freud and self-absorbed boyfriends. However today, we still have many reasons which lead to self-destruction and feminism is one of the causes.
Is my understanding correct? Thank you very much.
"The point is that happiness is always threatened by abstractions, of whatever time or political tendency. In mid-century London, for a woman like Anna, Marx and Freud and self-absorbed boyfriends happened to be the forms that oppression took. Today, there are different invitations to self-destruction. Feminism, for instance."
What is the relation between the sentences before "Today" and after "Today"? Does it mean that:
Anna had self-destructed in the 1960s because of the oppression exerted by Marx, Freud and self-absorbed boyfriends. However today, we still have many reasons which lead to self-destruction and feminism is one of the causes.
Is my understanding correct? Thank you very much.