SLSL "TSR" Swamp Wench

[pynchonoid]

Dave Meury:
>I also reluctantly suggest that the speed of her
>sexual submission may
>have been perceived a little differently in 1958 when
>the story was
>first published than it is now, giving more of an
>emphasis to the swamp
>wench characterization.  (Don't hold me to that. 
>Just a thought.)

Good point.  Sex on the first date wasn't the
expectation in '59, I don't think, although I was only
7 years old at the time.  It still wasn't the norm by
the time I reached high school, although there was
always at least one "bad girl" known to be willing.

If Buttercup is a "swamp wench" then she's likely one
of those despised Cajuns; as one who seems to have
managed to make her way out of the swamp milieu to
college, it's all the more understandable that she
would be tired of small-town life (where her sexual
behavior would surely attract attention and fuel
gossip) and account for her dismissal, "Well, Creole."

Whatever else she may be, and no matter how others may
look down on her in the story, Buttercup seems to be
alive and able to enjoy her sexuality in a way that
Levine isn't.

-Doug





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