Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Published 1962 · 62,150 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Cassandra at the Wedding to read?
Cassandra at the Wedding scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Precise mid-century American vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear, well-made sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete family weekend carrying a study of a self coming apart.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- Two sisters narrate; the first is in no state to be trusted.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The twinship itself is the figure.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- Steady distance between Cassandra's account and her condition.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The recovery is deliberately unconvincing.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Three parts, the middle switching narrator.
How Cassandra at the Wedding is regarded
Cassandra at the Wedding holds a literary regard score of 46 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.