M.’s Reviews > The Girl on the Train > Status Update

Read like 120+ pages in one go yesterday...oh my god. The women in this novel are really pitiful. Not in sense that I feel sorry for them but in how they're portrayed: the worst feminine "traits"a re compiled into Rachel, who bemoans being "barren" and not being able to attain her "woman's place" as a mother drove her to alcoholism. The way she speaks, her recounting is plunging into a depression.