Miles’s Reviews > Go Set a Watchman > Status Update

The heartbreak of learning a parent is not who they raised you...

Jean Louise is still an eerie reflection of deeply hidden part of me, and her realization after Sunday meet is a mourning I can feel in my heart.

Jean Louise still has her childhood spirit but the projection of independence she tries to maintain hides it. Alexandra brings out her need to argue for the sake of argument

While Jean Louise still has remnants of the character I grew to love as a child, in her current age seems to have less endearing and curious and simply, as Hank puts it, hateful.