The_Bostonians

The Bostonians The Bostonians by Henry James illustrates the Boston reformers throughout the women’s suffrage movement. James portrays the mercurial nature of the through his political satire. This is especially seen in Olive Chancellor, an obsessive women who has dedicated her life to the women’s suffrage movement and her sister Ms Luna, a pretty, yet shallow and manipulative woman. Their desire to control the unattainable is similar while the tactics the use to control are different. James shows the relationship between the sisters as one filled with distaste and jealousy. Although Ms Luna and Olive Chancellor differ on physical attributes and personalities, they both share a common emotion: jealousy, which is a reaction from their desire to control others. Ms Luna and Olive Chancellor differ on many counts including physical appearance. Ms Luna, “was sufficiently pretty; her hair was in clusters of curls, like bunches of grapes; her tight bodice seemed to crack her with vivacity…little of she might partake in the nature of her sister. (3-4)” James describes Luna as notably pretty, yet in his mocking nature, makes her appear as if she tries to hard, because she has no real quality to capture a man. While Luna concerns luna, olive, verena, james, control, sister, ms, jealousy, women, sisters, shows, ransoms, one, different, both, yet, women’s, very, suffrage, physical, personal, novel, movement, desire, chancellor, while, throughout, ransom, pretty, plain, olives, nature, makes, looks, life