I've been neglecting my blog recently, it slipped my mind like a weasel sliding off a rock into a pond.
There's a lot to talk about in Housekeeping. It's a book that at first I didn't think would be relatable at all for me, as a teenage male who slacks on chores and stuff. Strangely enough the book is making me think a lot about the nature of ambition and the end goal of the track that I'm on. The novel really focuses on the transition between the comfortability of domesticity and past generational values conflicting with the new ideas of what satisfaction should be. The end goal of the housekeeping lifestyle is totally free of ambition, and in my opinion that's not true happiness.
I think the easiest way to be satisfied is to always have something to aspire to so that you can gain satisfaction from completing goals. Time is the enemy of the domestic lifestyle and it constantly moves forward. I believe that along with time people should be moving with time. As I approach the end of my high school life I realize that as one track is ending I just still continue on a new, similar track without ever actually knowing exactly what my end goal is. Success, I guess.
When Sylvie's character was introduced I was instantly drawn to her because she found a way to really leave the track and still be happy with herself. In the way that Holden is likable, I think people are naturally drawn to people with different lifestyles to see how other paths and decisions can impact someone's character.
I've really enjoyed the discussions we have had about the novel so far and look forward to discussions sto come.
