What are your thoughts on the first-person narrator in "The Accompanist"? Did you sympathize with her plight in life? Did her reactions to her circumstances seem normal and understandable, or perhaps somewhat pathological?
Both, I think. I sympathized with her situation, especially her realization that she had one talent with the potential to improve her life (piano) but wasn't really good enough at it to make herself a star. Her obsession with the Travins' personal business seemed strange and a little crazy, but then again, I think it's a pretty normal, human thing to wish a bit of ill on someone out of jealousy, especially for young people in their first jobs.
Both, I think. I sympathized with her situation, especially her realization that she had one talent with the potential to improve her life (piano) but wasn't really good enough at it to make herself a star. Her obsession with the Travins' personal business seemed strange and a little crazy, but then again, I think it's a pretty normal, human thing to wish a bit of ill on someone out of jealousy, especially for young people in their first jobs.
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