Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.
Curtis SittenfeldWe all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
Curtis SittenfeldWell, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
Curtis SittenfeldI think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.
Curtis SittenfeldI don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."
Curtis Sittenfeld