Babette’s Feast | Critical Overview
Critics generally characterize “Babette’s Feast” as a triumphant and sensitive story of generosity, grace, and healing. John Simon of National Review deems it as “one of the author’s finest.” The characterization of the women in the story and the relationships between them strike readers as believable and sympathetic. In the New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann observed, “Lightly but clearly interwoven in the story are oppositions of cultures—pleasure-loving Catholic France, dour and hell-conscious Protestant Denmark.” Despite the differences between Babette and...
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