AtD Sins of the Father

[Mark Kohut]

Sins of the Fathers, Freddy Crews' [akin to Freddie Kreuger] book subtitled Hawthorne's Psychological 
Themes was his Freudian exploration of that Pynchon fave [after The Pooh Perplex or before, can't 
remember and ain't checking] before he turned on Freud like a rebellious son, is, to me a way
of framing our guy TRP who never 'turned' on Freud, just found that his rebellious son Jung was
a little more...universal?..poetic?...anthromythic?....all of the above?
 
Anyway, I see the Traverse story in AtD as so consciously embodying this subject motif that  .....it can seem
TOO simplistic-----which it would be if it were not embedded in much else and if it were not so intellectually
done....I mean, with attendant nuance......
 
Let's start the arguments with why, exactly (but not only). did TRP have Lake marry her dad's killer?
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