Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...earlier Waugh stooge-heroes whose very decency caused them to be trampled underfoot by hemen, clawed apart by harpies, robbed of their rights by double-dealers-and then trounced by Evelyn Waugh into the bargain. World War II finds Guy a dispossessed man in every sense, abandoned by a feckless wife, deprived of spiritual zest by isolation. Waugh is frank to admit that to a man like Guy, World War II was a matter for "jubilation...
...Ekdal family are happy so long as Hialmar Ekdal is ignorant of his wife's past and the true paternity of his child. Ibsen's exposure of Gregers Werle, the meddling idealist who enlightens Hialmar in the name of truth, is merciless. But his portrayal of flabby, feckless, self-excusing Hialmar is hardly less...