Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 03:45:22 GMT
When Muriel says: 'We couldn't get the room we had
before the war', & adds: 'The people are awful this year',
she's surely removing any doubt about honeymoons.
'Before the war' means - for Americans, if not for the rest
of us - before December 1941.
Girls belonging to anything other than the 'very rich'
stratum of American society did NOT - in the early 40s -
go away for holidays or dirty weekends with their lovers;
at least not so openly as to discuss it with their mothers.
_______________
And you know what? Taking this my sixth? -
seventh? - look at the story, I've finally decided it's
a truly nasty, pretentious little piece of work.
Seymour identifies the root of his discontent when he
'look[s] at the girl, aim[s] the pistol & fire[s] ...'
Nothing to do with the higher spirituality. It's all
Muriel's fault: this dishy, affectionate girl, who defends
him from her parents (guilty of nothing more than
worrying, quite justifiably, about their daughter's
involvement with a glaring psychotic), who sticks up
for him, accepts with good humour his verbal abuse,
listens patiently to his undergraduate crap about Rilko
Bilko, & puts up generally with his nonsense FOR AT
LEAST FOUR YEARS when so many others would
have long gone....
No no, she ain't good enough for this disgruntled,
precious, self-important, inadequate, paedophiliac
prig with his wearisome claims to intellectual
superiority.
Good riddance.
Scottie B.
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