ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[Monte Davis]

> I'm not trying
> to reduce the book to some kind of a revenge tragedy,
> but it certainly has that lineage.

Oh, no argument on that at all -- IIRC, around Thanksgiving I posted
something in passing about Hamlet and the time-honored "someone killed your
dad, whaddya gonna do about it?" plot. 

I was just trying to put a little distance between "the consequences of
Webb's death (and of his character) are central to the book" -- which is
inarguable -- and labeling Webb a central character. He has a better claim
than Broderick Slothrop (or young Hamlet's dad), but IMO no more than Reef
or Cyprian.