plots, victims and heroes
brad daly
bwdaly at panther.bsc.edu
Tue Feb 20 23:32:46 CST 1996
> characters in Barth's The End of the Road are well realized, I've always
> had the feeling that Barth didn't really like anybody in the book. (Of
> course it's been 25 years since I read it, so I might be talking through my
> hat).
>
nope, your hat's firmly atop your head. i just read _the end of the
road_ a couple of months ago. barth hates them all, but i don't think he
hates little jake horner quite as much as he does joe and rennie morgan,
or, especially, peggy rankin.
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brad daly bwdaly at panther.bsc.edu
Interviewer: "Why do you write?"
Flannery O'Connor: "Because I'm good at it."
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