--- Sally Jane Driscoll <
renza9@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hawk never seemed to me like Spenser's dark
side.
> Instead, the three characters seemed to make up
a
> single human being. Susan was the soul, Hawk was
the
> body and Spenser was the mind trying to hold it
all
> together. After a while I wanted each character
to
> be
> a full individual, not a personification of a
part
> of
> an individual.
Have to disagree with this. Spenser's got more soul, if
anything, than Susan ever had. I think part of Parker's
problem is that he'd like to paint his characters this way,
he's trying to, but in the end he identifies so strongly with
Spenser that he ends up making him complete in himself and
the others wind up seeming superfluous.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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