Vineland

[Sean Klein]

I think what I'm getting at, with the end of Vineland, is that the meeting betwen Prairie and her mother was anti-climactic whereas the presentation of other events in the book made me think that the meeting would be more dramatic (or climactic...)  Prairie is one of the few searchers in a TP novel that actually finds the subject of the search and all we get is "they talked for a few hours."  Imagine how this meeting would play on a Movie of the Week.  Now imagine how it would play on a Movie of the Week scripted by TP.  That's what I was expecting.  How come he didn't give us that?