Yeah, it's a boring title. Sue me.
This is just a formality to wrap up the past three posts I've done (The Nature of Hemingway/Defoe/Hawthorne). If you didn't already gather via reading them--or, I suppose, if you read this first--the overarching goal of those three posts was encapsulating the relationship between the various protagonists of the novel's I've read, and their relationship to nature.
Their relationships are on a very wide spectrum, with one end being Defoe, one end being Hemingway, and Hawthorne being somewhere in the middle. Defoe conquers natures, Hawthorne confides in it, and Hemingway submits to it. I'm not going to lie, writing them was a lot more interesting than I bargained for.
So, with that in mind, read on.
While nobody else got an immediate comment, nobody else had a comment box just sitting there. SagGamb, you make some fine points here. "What happens in Boston" bears odd similarity to the line "What happens in Vegas", albeit w/ a lot more judgment. And Ernie did put a 'manly twinge' on things, even eating mac & cheese. And I hadn't connected Robbie's (brief) fear of god with is later embodiment of one. That's a nice shift. Your comparisons in the intro define the three relationships to nature, but I am wondering how that might have been woven into your rants a bit more- I'm seeing Boston and Hull (wherever RC came from) as parallels, really, but Milan doesn't quite fit the same way. It's a conundrum I trust you could work out. A pleasure as always Mr. SagGamb.
ReplyDeleteWhile nobody else got an immediate comment, nobody else had a comment box just sitting there. SagGamb, you make some fine points here. "What happens in Boston" bears odd similarity to the line "What happens in Vegas", albeit w/ a lot more judgment. And Ernie did put a 'manly twinge' on things, even eating mac & cheese. And I hadn't connected Robbie's (brief) fear of god with is later embodiment of one. That's a nice shift. Your comparisons in the intro define the three relationships to nature, but I am wondering how that might have been woven into your rants a bit more- I'm seeing Boston and Hull (wherever RC came from) as parallels, really, but Milan doesn't quite fit the same way. It's a conundrum I trust you could work out. A pleasure as always Mr. SagGamb. (Now I'll see if I can prove I'm not a robot.)
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