As For Me and My House

"As For Me and My House" is a very complex novel by Sinclair Ross. The novel is told to the reader as journal recordings of Mrs. Bentley. The main character consist in the journal are Mrs. Bentley's husband Philip, a school teacher Paul, choir girl in church Judith and abandon child Steve. Because the story is told as a journal, so everything is in a view through Mrs. Bentley's eyes and is in her point …

…an accident in a field and dies, leaving the child behind for the Bentley's to adopt. All the false front that Mrs. Bentley has put on for the marriage would finally brought the Bentley closer together. If Mrs. Bentley did not had the false front on, who knows what would happen to the marriage. One would even argue that Philip would never have to courage to step out of the church and towards the city.