The Problem of Thor Bridge: Another Problem

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Problem of Thor Bridge: Another Problem
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: PG
Warning: None
Summary: The unspoken problem of Thor Bridge.

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I contemplated the blank paper.

"The" problem of Thor Bridge?

A man scorns his first wife for a younger and whiter woman, then wonders at his wife's anger. His love interest dismisses the woman's rage as a "tropical" temperament.

On three continents I have seen that women are women – and grief and desperation can drive anyone to acts of madness.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very true, Watson.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very true!

[debriswoman]

A fair summing up.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Doesn't exactly need a Sherlock Holmes to deduce the real problem here.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

In a case like this, someone who actually understands women would be better at deducing than Sherlock Holmes.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Holmes may have cleverly deduced the cause of death, but his lack of knowledge of women would still hamper him in deducing the *reason*.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I can never condone Mrs. Gibson trying to frame Miss Dunbar, but I absolutely understand and sympathise with her anger and despair. I consider Gibson and Miss Dunbar's relationship to be what in modern terms we'd call an emotional affair, and they're indulging in it in Mrs. Gibson's own home.

I thought it was an inspired idea to use Watson's statement in SIGN as a way to challenge how Mrs. Gibson's feelings were belittled.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I thought that maybe Watson's "knowledge" of women on 3 continents was exactly that and not just sexual innuendo. He definitely has a better opinion on the tougher sex than does Holmes.