Zoyd

[Joe Allonby]

Ah, so Vineland is about work.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> T! It's not his 'job', it's something he does once a year.
>
>
> Wrong. It is a Job. He wants to grow this little job into a bigger
> one, even into a business. He tells us it's his Job. So does the
> narrator, So do several characters in the text. Zoyd says that it is a
> Job and that he must do it to produce Revenue (17). He fears losing
> the Job because if the viewers and the groupies, like his daughter's
> boyfriend, figure out that he is jumping through sugar, he may lose
> the money he hopes to bring in from this gig. He could have been
> working at Joey Chitwoods ...making some real money.
>
>
>>> Although Zoyd knows that the responsible thing to do is earn the money
>>> to pay the rent (he does have a family to support) he meets with
>>> Hector instead.
>>
>> This is simply not true, T. You're consciously twisting the truth, for
>> effect. Why?
>
> It's in the text.
>