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Therese is a young girl who wants to be a stage
decorator actually but working in a toy shop
temporarily. her father whose orient is from
checkoslavakia, wanted to be a painter all his
life but died not able to attain his ideal.
her mother who is a pianist, after her second
marriage left her to a boarding school of nuns,
in a way abandoned her.
Therese who can't feel herself close to anyone
except sister Alicia, is as if trying to survive
with less desire for living. actually the missing
part about this 19 year old girl is her enthusiasm...
she aims to create a theather play's decors
but the weariness prevents her from reflecting
the movement she desire into her drawings. also
the relationship she's having with her boyfriend
prevents her from feeling content. allthough
Theresa loves Richard who wants to be a painter
one day, this relationship doesn't have any
gleam and passion in it. together they fly kites,
share their desire for art, eat dinners at noel
with Richard's family but there's not sexuality
in this relationship.
maybe Therese would have an impassionate relationship
with Richard.. she would go to europe with him
and keep the knitted gloves which sister Alicia
gave to her but one day an unusual event changed
her life for forever.
Therese, who remembers her first meeting with Carol as if a dream behind a tulle curtain, decides not to give up this fairy tale easily. Carol, who effects Therese endlessly with her blonde hair, intoxicating scent and eyes which has almost all shades of green in it, leads this girl to new places where Therese had never been before. but Therese is not the only one who is carried away…
in this novel of hers Patricia Highsmith uses
an inert style and immortalizes the passion
two women feel for eachother. in reality she
wrote this novel at a time when she was in need
for money. she had been working at a shop where
she had met with a blonde woman who effectted
her deeply. for us the good part is novel finishes
with a happy end. vice versa of expected Carol's
and Therese's troublesome relationship results
by two women's reunion. also this story has
a feminist side. at the beginning Carol who
had an experience at divorcing tries to restrain
her feelings and passion but through the end
of the novel we see her stronger and more faithfull
than before. also Therese passes through the
same things and reaches to the conscious of
being an adult woman.
another interesting part about the book is
the identity of two female characters. both
Therese and Carol are ordinary people. maybe
even too much ordinary.
this story is trying to tell us, how life doesn't have boundaries and rules when you love someone. like Dannie says who is one of the characters of the novel "maybe life is a positive science which has it's own terms, whole process is just to find and define it."
(regl would like to thank helen
for the critic of the novel "Carol")
author: Patricia Highsmith
publýshed by: Remzi Kitabevi First Edition
April 1992
translated by: Mehmet Harmanci309 pages
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