VL--IV misc. p 70-71

[Mark Kohut]

Laura writes:
Who is Frenesi rebelling against?  I wish I'd had time to watch those interviews with hippies' kids that someone (Bekah?  Robin?) recently posted.  The classic rebellion against lefty parents is to become a Republican businessperson, but that's certainly not Frenesi.  It seems more that it's a form of self-punishment.  She's put herself into a purgatory (somewhere between The Law and Anarchy) to punish herself for that moment of weakness when she informed on her friends.  There's more pain than ideology behind it, her Woodstock best portrayed by the Joplin lyrics:  Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Perhaps TRPs point is that she is not even strong enough to rebel. She passively accepts betrayal---"no sense of history or the dead"