VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?

[jbor]

>> And cf. the more impartial judgement made by a similarly-aged young girl
> who
>> comes into contact with Zoyd on the highway: "you ought to be locked up"
>> (5.18-19).
>> 
> 
> Impartial? 

Prairie, being his daughter, is obviously partial to Zoyd. The young girl on
the highway, who doesn't know him from Adam, is impartial. (I don't think
she or her parents are Nazis, by the way. Is there any evidence in the text
to support this interpretation?) At least the touring families in the
Winnebagos are just admiring the redwoods, unlike the members of the
Traverse-Becker clan who have been cutting them down for generations.

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> Having got parents who share lemming-like behaviour and expose
> their children to that kind of holiday? No wonder that such judgment about
> another person emerges. I mean, locking people up just because of the way
> they look -- sounds to me like the same spirit that had inhibited
> nazi-Germany. I bet her daddy's got a gun.