The Next Chapter

Glenn Close is nominated for best actress at this year's Academy Awards.  I hope she wins.  The movie is "The Wife."  It's the story of a man winning the Nobel Prize for literature.  He and his wife travel to Oslo to accept the prize and the glory.

We learn that the wife came into the writer's life as a talented student.  She succumbs to being told by another woman that the stories she wants to tell would never find a publisher.  She marries her mentor and settles for a literary life of secret contribution.

My favorite scene is the last one.  I won't give away the plot except to say that, on an airplane, she opens the notebook on her lap to a blank page.  A look of quiet triumph and anticipation crosses her face.

We know what she will do next.