Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The boys
Something I noticed about narrators is that they were really affected by what happened to these girls. They much like the girls became kind of a mystery, they said "no one ever understood what got into us that year why we hated so intensely the crust of dead bugs over our live. Suddenly however we couldn't bear the fish flies carpeting our swimming pools"(53). They need to find out what actually happened years later in order to deal with the tragedy that has plagued their lives for years.
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Interesting point, Dan. This shows that their obsession is not necessarily with the girls, but the fact that they don't UNDERSTAND what happened or why the girls did what they did? The lack of being able to figure this out, to answer the questions they have, to clarify makes them unable to move on. It's like they are trapped in their own ambiguity and lack of understanding and rather than "glowing on the verge," they are frustrated and immobile and even in denial and avoidance. What does this show you about the human need for understanding, or at least assumption of understanding?
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