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Date Posted: 17:26:37 01/22/08 Tue
Author: Glenn Parrington
Subject: Re: inference of sexual abuse in Florence's frigidity in McEwan's On Chesil Beach
In reply to: Mrs. A. King 's message, "inference of sexual abuse in Florence's frigidity in McEwan's On Chesil Beach" on 14:31:32 04/08/07 Sun

I am very glad that this question should get so many replies because I wondered that myself and look forward to reading others interpretations.

I definitely got the impression that she had been abused on the boat, sexually surely but had not been raped, and figured that as half the novel centres on poor 'frigid' Florence coming to terms with her revulsion at being 'penetrated' it offered something of an explanation. I also felt as if we were being deliberately and cunningly kept in the dark by McEwan on this; even she had shut the details out from her waking thoughts and contemplations and so, we as mere readers, were not privy to her secrets either. Brilliant!

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