Subject: Cravenhearted.
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 12:08:57 GMT
For everyone who commented that the list is too quiet, I thought I'd throw
one out there for discussion. That is, what is the point of the Story
Everyone Hates?
If you wade through some of the more purple prose, you might find the
following passage in "Hapworth 16, 1924":
"I am freely saddling you, one and all, parent and child, with a very
long, boring letter, quite filled to the brim with my stilted flow of
words and thoughts. Speaking in my own behalf, it is less my fault than
quickly meets the eye; among many, onerous things, it is all too easy for
a boy of my dubious age and experience to fall easy prey to fustian, poor
taste, and unwanted spurts of showing off. As God is my judge I am working
on it, but it is a taxing struggle without a magnificent teacher I can
turn to with absolute abandon and trust. If one has no magnificent
teacher, one is obliged to install one in one's mind; it is a perilous
thing to do if you were born cravenhearted, as I was."
Now, if you ask me, I think this passage is the key to "Hapworth" and,
indeed, the key to Understanding Seymour.
What do you think? Would anyone like to speculate on what it means?
Regards,
Cecilia.
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