Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm Reading Reflection

I’m sorry this is late! I looked at the blog to see if anyone else had posted an unessay and saw that we had to do a reading reflection for Cold Comfort Farm.

I know that a lot of people did not really like Cold Comfort Farm. Some because they thought it was boring and some because they thought that the main character was maddening and irritating. I disagree with both of these reasons. While it was not my favorite book of the semester I found Cold Comfort to be funny and entertaining. I also found Flora to be quirky and amusing. Although I agree that she was sometimes rude and pretentious I found humor in that.

I related her character to the character of Higgins from Pygmalion. Higgins was trying to change Eliza into the type of person that he thought that she should be, ignoring her personality traits and wishes. He was also very rude and talked down to Eliza just as Flora does to her family members at the farm. They both try to change people that they don’t think are classy or high class enough. I think that both were honestly thinking that they were helping the people but they thought of it as a charity which made them talk down to the people that they were helping and made the people resent them not only for trying to change them but for treating them like they were less of a person. Pygmalion was my favorite book in this class. My second favorite was Lapin Agile. And cold Comfort Farm was my third favorite.