Ernie and March: "my grandson Kennedy" (BE130)

[John Bailey]

I wish we'd given Bleeding Edge a serious read.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:38 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pynchon has the parents name the boy Kennedy.
>
> A somewhat popular name, especially with the Tallis and Ice community,
> of the time the novel is set, but, and while this is not simple naming
> allegory here, never is with Pynchon, it fits with Pynchon's satire of
> the Lefty grandparents Ernie and March.
>
> Here March is satirized.
>
> Again, the satire of the Left by the Leftist Pynchon critiques the
> politicization of family relations and how the elders try to control,
> steer and direct the grandchildren.
>
> March says, "You never want to see kids repeat your own mistakes."
>
>
> She's talking about her daughter, who, like March married, "a
> promising entrepreneur." 129
>
> So her daughter made the marriage mistake, and March has given up her,
> but is now focused on her grandson, Kennedy.
>
> To March, her daughter's choice of mate and of career make her "a
> perverse child" married to Ice, and "He's evil." 129
> He owns her daughter, as March sees it.
>
> And, the bond she has with her grandson is founded on hate, on hating
> the same people. 130
>
> What's in a name?
>
> Kennedy? A fight for the boy. Has it anything, this fight, to do with
> the famous Kennedy clan?
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