Jane Eyre is in the House

The New York Times (you will need bugmenot to read the article) has an article on TV series House, M.D. It made us laugh:

House might have been conceived as a medical show, but it quickly evolved into a delicious Gothic romance, topped by a swirl of chick-lit froth. [...]
It is Dr. Allison Cameron's painful, yet kind of pleasurable, duty to play Jane Eyre to House's Edward Rochester. The only woman on House's staff, Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is 20-something, brilliant and lovely in a shy-mouse way. While in college, Cameron married a man dying of cancer; she is still atoning for her failure to save him. She wears man-tailored vests over girlish puff-sleeved blouses, like body armor over fragile feelings.[...]
House: "You live under the delusion that you can fix everything that isn't perfect. That's why you married a man who was dying of cancer. You don't love, you need. And now that your husband is dead, you're looking for another charity case."
"I'm twice your age," he continued. "I'm not great looking, I'm not charming, I'm not even nice. What I am is what you need. I'm damaged." [...]
As any reader of chick lit (or Gothic romances) can see, Cameron is now at the point of the story where the heroine is determined to get over the unattainable object of her longing. And just as she does.

Well, at least Dr House will know better than to keep a madwoman in an attic :P

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