blem is one of form. Some books do not appeal to the majority of readers because they do not adhere to traditional form. Anna explains that readers do not "mind immoral messages" and they do not mind moral messages, "what they can't stand is to be told that it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness" (444). Mrs. Marks points out that formless art is difficult to imagine but that Anna's protestations about not "holding an aristocratic view of art" are groundless since Anna clearly writes only for herself (444). This strikes a chord with Anna who remarks that all the writers who proceed as she does do so in secret because "they are afraid of what they are thinking" (444).
In one sense this fear is that there is an inseparable division between their beliefs and their attitude toward art. Anna, for example, is uncovering this split in her own life and it is revealed by the division between her communist-socialist belief in the incorrectness of aristocratic art and the impulse to write fiction that has a very limited appeal. Anna has perc
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