M & D Group Read (cont.)

[Mark Kohut]

Smoak keeps noticing the wind in M & D. Real thing to notice.

Some thoughts. It is often a symbol for the divine, a divine presence, God
speaking to Job out of the whirlwind, say.
But that can't be, can it?, too operative here---unless the general
windiness sorta can contain the notion of the religious 'freedoms',
the need for, circulating all over the Western world of the time,
especially in the founding of America.?

But closer to basic meanings I think of the phrase, 'the winds of change"
which fits M & D fully, no?

And, in other readings I have been remind of the moral struggle in a late
James novel, The Golden Bowl, in which the two
main protagonists' struggle is metaphorized as 'beating against the wind"
also reminding of the against the current metaphor of
The Great Gatsby, which we know is alluded to in M & D.
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