#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

[John Bailey]

While I think Elmina and Leo seem relatively likeable, Doc's
family-related dream later in the novel certainly does complicate
things. Brings in the Gilroy envy, some kind of sublimated fear or
resentment of a quasi-mother figure, along with death, too.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike B asks, Why would he bring Leo and Elmina in to just satirize them?
>
> Why not?
>
> If we can trust Aunt Reet, Larry's folks would like to see him married
> (maybe to that Shasta) with children and living on a two acre suburban
> lot in suburban California; if not a carbon copy of sibling Gilroy the
> Kill Joy, than at least some kind of operatons manager:  Organization
> Man.
>
> "The Organization Man is one of the most influential books of the
> twentieth century. It established the categories Americans now use
> when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their
> lives."—David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Standard and
> contributing editor at Newsweek
>
> http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/whyte-main.html
>
> One reason they are brought in is to talk about TV and Film.  Don't
> touch that dial.
>
> Go to You Tube and type in:     I am the slime  . . .oooooozing along
> on your living room floor.  --Zappa
>
>