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Conclusion
The Conclusion section reads more like something you'd find in a review than an encyclopedia. The last sentence (...make it something unique and a work which should be revived, and far better known) particularly reeks of opinion rather than anything factual. Jrs044 (talk) 00:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, but this can be said of the whole article. For instance, the character descriptions read as if none had any effect upon the lives/experiences the others. Isak, for instance, is a cold, un-affectionate husband who wanted a wife to gratify his personal manly needs as well as provide free labor. That is what really drove his wife to infidelity when she'd been "repaired", and it was the lack of love in her own life that resulted in her killing her own hair-lipped baby out of "mercy". Maybe Hamsun didn't intend to say this, he was after all a nationalist and would want to glorify Isak as a hero, but to any un-biased reader this is obvious. I also feel that the book isn't as relativistic towards evil and good as the article would have one believe. --64.46.3.66 (talk) 02:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
