Subject: Re: Walt's hand in "Uncle Wiggly" (was Re: Honeymoon?)
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 13:33:40 GMT
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:00:46PM -0500, Cecilia Baader wrote:
> I'm sure also that Eloise is not pregnant in the Uncle Wiggly train scene...
> never have I read it that way until this very day, as a matter of fact.
> However, just to continue with my much-loved role of devil's advocate, the
> comment that Ramona looks just like Lew could be from disgust that she's not
> only living with the wrong father, she's beginning to look like him as well.
> Sort of like a dog starts to look like their owner.
I never thought that there was an Eloise-Walt pregnancy, and in order to
consider it, I'd have to read the story again very carefully (an
impossibility, since I'm sick in bed and my copies of Nine Stories are
all far away from me), but I will say this about Cecilia's comment: If
Ramona MIGHT be Walt's daughter, and if Eloise's friend knows about the
fatherhood, then this could well be a classically ironic sentence,
saying how much Ramona looks like Lew when the friend knows Lew is not
the actual father.
But I think this is much, too much, a stretch of the imagination, and
far too intricate for magazine fiction of the time.
--tim
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