Did McCullers mean to portray Singer as the wise man that everyone thought of him as? I took him to be a much less exaggerated version on Chance the Gardener from "Being There."
Did McCullers mean to portray Singer as the wise man that everyone thought of him as? I took him to be a much less exaggerated version on Chance the Gardener from "Being There."
I want to chime in on what promises to be a red hot thread. Yes, I think he meant to portray him as wise: the one who could not speak nor hear, just alone with his sight.Originally Posted by Irving Washington
I haven't read "being there."
Seriously IW? Has anybody read this book since sophmore year of high school? Has anybody ever read it for any other reason?
Yes.
This smacks of being a low blow....
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
IW can take it.
I read it because it was in the top ten of one list of best novels of the 20th century. I was underwhelmed. Now, back to the question...
that's how I got sucked into reading Jonathan Franzen. Just shows you cant trust top 10 lists.
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