This post continues my theme of drawing wisdom from Ursula
Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales. You can
check out some of my previous posts for a more detailed summary of the book.
The story Brothers and
Sisters follows two brothers and their sister. Without explaining the story, I again want to
share a little of Le Guin’s eloquence in character development. This post is from the same story as my last
one, and the idea is only subtly different.
Le Guin describes the sister, Rosanna, listening to a
conversation between her brother and a lady friend of his:
Rosanna,
by the hearth, listened to them talk. She
sat silent, heavy and her shoulders stooped, though of late she had been
learning again to hold herself erect as she had when she was a child, a year
ago. They say one gets used to being a millionaire; so after a year or two a
human being begins to get used to being a woman…
