For example, there is something terrible in the scene where Laura Fairley plays the piano to say goodbye to Walter Hartright in The Woman in White! Laura is a young, aristocratic woman, not allowed by convention to marry Walter, who is just a poor teacher. She has to marry someone her father chose for her, and who, of course, turns out to be totally evil. Will the two lovers eventually get together? I can't say; check out the novel to find out!
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In Middlemarch, too, Rosamond's beautiful piano music stands for a talent wasted. George Eliot generally uses music to pass messages about women's subversion, and I have read that this is especially so in her novel Daniel Deronda. Personally, I found that novel unreadable, so I can't say much else about it.
Dorian Gray is a masterful piano player, and again the scenes where he plays are disturbing if not downright scary.
The beautiful Edward Cullen is also talented with the piano.
Yet, for me, the most amazing piano playing scenes are in Fifty Shades of Grey! Like Dorian, Christian too plays to express sadness, loneliness and despair.
Give me a mysterious man who can play the piano anytime!
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