Monday, February 9, 2009
What happened to the girl?!
So the children aren't aliens...sadly. But they are beautiful, right? I don't know what to believe anymore! Were they just like that because that is how the narrator percieved them to be? She saw them as something to be claimed? When Flora no longer loved her, she turned ugly and common. Miles remained beautiful. What troubles did she have that she needed this possession over them? Was it a lost love? Lost family? Some people are just mad yes, but it seemed that in gothic literature, it is always something that drives them over the edge. What happend? Was she Miss Jessel? Not literally...but figuratively.
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I was thinking earlier that, if she was insane and this is simply a story created by her nervous fancy, that a driving point may have been the children's perfection. We did find out, after some time, that the children had flaws... both lie, for instance, but neither seem to really have a great flaw that makes them seem... mmm, human.
ReplyDeleteBut before that, the narrator didn't even have those to work off of! They were just... unhumanly good. Wouldn't that make /you/ want to come up with some flaws /for/ them? Wouldn't that make you nervous?
/I/ would be nervous. I'd be looking for something to go wrong...