Re: 9 stories-eskimos
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:26:35 -0800 (PST)
> You know, I might be a total imbecile, but I *completely* missed the
> fact that Franklin's friend (I don't have the book with me at the
> moment) is gay, the first couple of times I read it. Maybe I just
had
> to get older and become more worldly or something. Anyway. I always
> thought the Easter chick was representative of her inappropriate or
> disproportional sympathy, or even guilt feelings.
> She feels the same sympathy/guilt/pity or whatever for Selena now,
> knowing that her brother has heart problems and that he was prevented
> from doing what the other young men his age were at the time, and
that
> he has to hang out with gay men (disclaimer: not that that's a bad
> thing!!!! Please don't get me wrong; I'm only speaking in the
context of
> the time period in which the story was written). Maybe Franklin is
gay
> himself. Whatever. But it's enough to elicit her
sympathy/guilt/etc.
> And *that's* enough to override her previous opinion of Selena being
the
> biggest drip in her class. You may quote me wildly on that. ;)
>
> Am I way, way off about this?? Anyone?
>
>
> T.A. Muller
>
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Wow, don't worry I totally missed that too.
-Liz Friedman
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