Sunday, January 25, 2009
Odd turn of events...
Louis visiting Clarissa? What?...This is an odd turn of events indeed! I would have felt rather awkward around my husband's past lover... (not to mention a gay past lover)! Then, later Clarissa finds herself having thoughts of Louis and her taking off their clothes together? I am once agian confused by these characters and where their exact feelings towards one another are. Perhaps, more than confusion...I am a little disgusted to who they are as people. As well, I still see or feel no connection towards these present characters and the original ones. Where is the connection? Where is the deeper meaning? Or is this truly just the writings of a confused individual? I hope to be enlightend towards the end of the book.
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Amy,
I think that Louis here is playing the Peter Walsh role (sort of--I don't think Cunningham wants it to be too perfect a correlation). He's fallen in love (as Peter has), cries (as Peter does), but the twist is that Richard isn't Clarissa's husband (the three of them--Richard, Louis and Clarissa--were all involved with one another back in the Wellfleet days). Yes, it's unusual, but hardly without precedent.
Hope this clears things up!
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