Subject: Re: Glass
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 19:38:00 EST
Louise:
>Perhaps Walt is a more useful character to think about than we have
realised, then. Because in a way, he's >as much a mirror image of Seymour as
Buddy is, but in a completely different way. Does anyone else find it
>slightly disturbing that an apparently nice and - yes, normal young man
dies in such a ridiculously tragic way >yet it's the poet with the foot
fixation that becomes the family saint? Why???
What do we have here: two of Bessie's sons are dead, one by suicide (her
favorite, her most intricately calibrated, her kindest son) and one killed
in WWII (her only truly lighthearted son).
Lighthearted normal young men killed in the war (non-combat) don't usually
inspire hagiography.
Poets, who are star-crossed with Mysticism, and figure in the Glass stories
as Seymour does, do.
--Bruce
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