Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 12:59:20 GMT
Otto Sell wrote:
>She says in the phonecall that they could not get the same room as *before*
>the war. Sounds more to me as if Muriel's mother knows the place, as if
>Muriel's family has been holidaying here before the war.
Hmmmm. Yes, I can see that. I think that might also explain Muriel's
comments about what they're wearing this year, &c., too. One of the things
that I've always admired about this story is how realistic the dialogue is--
as if Muriel and her mother were picking up in the middle of a thousand old
conversations. They're using sort of a mother-daughter shorthand. If her
mother was familiar with the place, it would explain many of those sorts of
comments, make them more into simple updates than catty commentaries.
I've always been a bigger fan of Muriel than the rest of the planet, though.
I've lent out my copy of Raise High...& Seymour... (Okay, that's enough
snickering from the peanut gallery.) I've got this foggy memory of the phone
call at the end, when Buddy hears that they've eloped, that Muriel and
Seymour go off together on a honeymoon. True? Am I just making that up? I
can't remember.
The trip seems like a starting over, like Muriel decided that she needed to
get him out of town to a place where he would be away from bad influences.
(Like his family? Hers too?) She's a staunch defender of all that is
Seymour and seems the type to *do something* about problems. (Reference the
magazine headline, "Sex is fun... or Hell".)
Anyway, to get back to the beginning of this, I guess that I just always
read "we" to mean Seymour and I. But I suppose that it could mean you and
I.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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