The Woman Upstairs By Claire Massud

Many people are brought up to think that it is inappropriate to express anger directly; that it must not be tolerated; that it is always dangerous, to bottle it up and ignore it, to express it only in indirect ways or to use it as a weapon. The idea that anger is dangerous is not without a claim . Angry people are capable of great violence. However, anger is more than a simple destructive force .Anger is also a critically important part of what might be called the self-preservation and self-defense instincts. People who are incapable of getting angry are also incapable of standing up for themselves. It is important then that people learn how to express anger appropriately .People need to learn healthy and socially respectful ways to express
Reading this book is like taking a temporary journey inside the mind of the main character, Nora Eldridge. Readers will be gasping at the end, fully comprehending the character they have inhabited and the angry path of her life . She is a work of fine art, with a very sharp edge.Nora’s strong voice carries the novel, she is a symbol of the widespread lack of joy and anger that many women experience ,not only" the women upstairs ", but also the mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters who reach what Messud describes , those who are self-sacrificing , who are angry on the inside only
Almost married, almost an artist and totally disillusioned by her own cowardice and her circumstances. She is a symbol of a lack of joy in a life whose path has not gone the way that was hoped. Nora has always done what was expected of her, just like her namesake in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House who is in search of an identity for herself , Nora Helmer the protagonist of A Doll's House finally has found herself after years of being buried. It was clear from the beginning that she knew who she was, and what people had turned her into. In the end, she did only what she felt was necessary and should not be looked down upon for it through An intensive conversation held between her and her husband Helmer