“Good-bye” is a quintessential Taylor story for a number of reasons: It is informed by a Brontëan tale, the obsessive love of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights it is quietly dramatic, portraying a momentous event in the lives of people doing ordinary things and it demonstrates an uncanny knowledge of children’s lives, of their fears and certainties. These leavetakings occur between adulterous lovers, Peter and Catherine, the first recalled by Peter in retrospect, and the second occurring at the end of the story. The story’s title points to its theme of two painful farewells. Analysis of Elizabeth Taylor’s Good-bye, Good-byeīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 12, 2022Įlizabeth Taylor’s poignant short story “Good-bye, Good-bye” was first published in the magazine Woman and Beauty and then collected in The Blush and Other Stories in 1958.
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