Goodreads asked Kevin Egan:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Kevin Egan Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge are my favorite fictional couple. In two novels, written nine years apart, Evan S. Connell examines their lives first from Mrs. Bridge’s point of view and then from Mr. Bridge’s point of view. The effect is not a Rashomon-style exercise of depicting the same events as experienced by two different people. Instead, we see their marriage and their lives in an upper-middle class suburb of Kansas City in the years between the two world wars through each of their eyes. The implicit question throughout both novels is whether these two people love each other. The answer, apparent at the end of Mr. Bridge’s story, is yes.

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