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.

--
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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