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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (81584)	6/13/2000 12:07:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I have no idea what nihil means by effeminate, but Greene was heterosexual. Not only was he married, which means little in proving heterosexuality, he also had numerous affairs with women, including a well-known affair with a Swedish actress. I wanted to post about this yesterday, but the French TV version of The Count of Monte Cristo started last night on Bravo. Very well done, I think it continues through Thursday. Back to The End of The Affair. The book was much more about Catholicism, much less about the affair, that is my recollection, and I've read it twice, although not for several years. In the book, as in the movie, the woman swears off the affair by promising God that if the man is not dead, she will end the affair. But in the book, this awakens her devotion. She sees the priest for religious lessons. She cannot leave her husband for her lover because she is Catholic, and as you know, Catholics are forbidden from remarrying after divorce. Adultery is also a mortal sin. She struggles with her love and desire for the lover, and her love of God, and her love of God wins out, even though she does not want it to. In the movie, she gave in to her desire, but in the book my recollection is that she did not. At any rate, The End of The Affair was partially about Greene's own affair with a married woman, which lasted ten years.