The Son's Veto, a Short Story by Thomas Hardy, narrated by Daniel

[@merlevandeventer8481]

Yes...Christians can be more unlike their Saviour Jesus Christ than an out and out unbeliever with compassion and love in his/her heart...oh that people who call themselves believing and saved from their sins' Christians would have a truly Christlike heart and eyes... I know this total rejection as a parent...pray every day for them... Beautifully narrated and so heartbreaking.... God bless, Merle

[@caliconservative20]

Thomas Hardy was as adept as the greatest novelists of drawing with words the portrait of the hypocrisy and savageness evident in his contemporary society. He was deeply cynical but that's why i like his work.

[@feralbluee]

Thank you so much for posting this story, but it is too sad for me, which shows, I guess, what a good writer he was. Also a very good reading. Maybe, he wrote to show how women were dominated to their own detriment. But to read it now is depressing. Even if it is Thomas Hardy, whose novels I like and have strong women as characters - Tess being one. :)🌷🌱

[@elizabethbogard7568]

Hardy's stories sadly illustrate the hard time women endured in his times. They are often misery. Times are much improved today, thank goodness. However, I love Hardy's structured writings.

[@अस्मिरीति]

Such stories are still enacted either by offsprings or their married other halves. They look down on the elderly parent who fall short of their "standard" of veneered classy lifestyle pretending to be high class because of the sudden wealth/ honours gained in their society. Basic self centered selfishness which is a false value from the education they were privileged to receive.

[@PippaAT]

@अस्मिरीति A lady I knew wanted to remarry. Her four children were vehemently against it, so after some thought, she told them that she was lonely, and intended to give up her house, and live with them all in turn, two months at a time. The wedding was beautiful, and the marriage happy. 😊

[@Jane-b9k]

She would never be worthy in his eyes. He was too full of his self.

[@maryrichardson9739]

Yes too sad

[@PeteIsherwood-d6e]

So the AI reader’s name is Daniel😊

[@HestiaBHN1]

I just finished reading Mary Trumps memoir...that is mostly about her childhood. It has a common theme with this story by Hardy...family duty, patriarchal male attitudes, and projection of personal power outward onto others. The son in this story is an obnoxious, jumped up snob. But the mother is equally annoying to me as the martyrish victim. Patriarchy tells women they must sacrifice themselves for others. And it tells men they have they have the right to demand obediance and servitude from women. Utter nonsense. Im so glad that more and more women are beginning to rebel and to pursue their own happiness with impunity. But its alarming to read that some modern women such as Mary, are still caught in families who give up so much personal power to a patriarch -- Fred Trump, in Marys familys case. It comes down to a simple decision, "Is it more important what others think of me, or pursuing my own ( basically harmeless) happiness without guilt.