Not at all the way I would characterize Hell of a Woman. The
book is a fascinating study of a psychologically broken
person. Frank "Dolly" Dillon is a character who is going to
find a way to make the worse of any situation he ends up in.
It's more of a struggle for self destruction--at least at the
psychic level, than anything else. A hardluck guy if there
ever was one. Sorry, your description for this one is more
than a stretch..
--Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> Re: A Hell of a Woman, this is the story of a poor
man
> willing to do murder to get a keep a woman whom
he
> neither knows nor understands. It's his struggle
for
> wealth and status that drives him to his
> ill-considered behavior. It doesn't get more
political
> than that!
>
> Patrick King
> --- Dave Zeltserman <dz@...> wrote:
>
> > Killer Inside Me did have some pro union
sentiment
> > in it, and Swell-
> > Looking Babe took a healthy swipe at the
communist
> > witch hunts going
> > on, but I think it's kind a stretch to tie Hell
of a
> > Woman to any
> > political agenda. Also, Patrick mentioned
the
> > Grifters not the
> > Getaway, but at this point I'd have to reread
The
> > Grifters to state
> > an opinion, although after previous readings I
was
> > never left with
> > impression that it had any political
agenda.
> >
> > --Dave Z.
> >
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
> > <miker_zspider@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Patrick King wrote:
> > >
> > > You miss argueably the most important:
Jim
> > Thompson.
> > > By all accounts Thompson definitely had
a
> > political
> > > agenda. Note especially A Hell of a Woman,
The
> > > Grifters and The Killer Inside
Me.
> > >
> > > ***********
> > > I see nothing significantly political
about The
> > Killer
> > > Inside Me. And his little allegory of
capitalism
> > in
> > > The Getaway is compromised by the fact
that there
> > are
> > > no other options for the
characters.
> > >
> > > miker
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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