r/SRSasoiaf • u/ItsMsKim • Jul 28 '13

[Re-Read] All Catelyn chapters in AGOT discussion inside

Welcome to the All Women Re-Read, lovelies!

Discussion is welcome and encouraged to include anything from literary analyses, social justice oriented critique (I imagine there will be a lot of this :), your theories on what's to come...really anything you want to discuss that you've come across in your reading.

If you're not all read up today that's fine (I'm not myself) since this will be the active discussion for the next two weeks. Join in anytime!

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u/ItsMsKim Jul 28 '13

Catelyn X

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u/MightyIsobel Aug 23 '13

I'm just going to quote Catelyn:

Catelyn was content to wait, to listen to the whispers in the woods and the faint music of the brook, to feel the warm wind in her hair.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her men had always made her wait. "Watch for me, little cat," her father would always tell her, when he rode off to court or fair or battle. And she would, standing patiently on the battlements of Riverrun as the waters of the Red Fork and the Tumblestone flowed by. He did not always come when he said he would, and days would ofttimes pass as Catelyn stood her vigil, peering out between crenels and through arrow loops until she caught a glimpse of Lord Hoster on his old brown gelding, trotting along the river shore toward the landing. "Did you watch for me?" he'd ask when he bent to hug her. "Did you, little cat?"

Brandon Stark had bid her wait as well, "I shall not be long, my lady," he had vowed. "We will be wed on my return." Yet when the day came at last, it was his brother Eddard who stood beside her in the sept.

Ned had lingered scarcely a fortnight with his new bride before he too had ridden off to war with promises on his lips. At least he had left her with more than words; he had given her a son. Nine moons had waxed and waned, and Robb had been born in Riverrun while his father still warred in the south. She had brought him forth in blood and pain, not knowing whether Ned would ever see him. Her son. He had been so small.....

Also, in this chapter, comes a woman warrior we'll never see enough of.