Posted by Noa on August 6, 2004, at 4:41:58
In reply to Re: So, what character would you like to be?, posted by Jai Narayan on August 5, 2004, at 15:28:45
I have to think some more about which character I'd like to be. I agree with you about Atticus Finch.
One character that I can identify with at least in part is Garp ("The World According to Garp" by John Irving) in terms of his experience of the impossibility of trying to control one's life and world. One aspect of this that I was especially aware of when reading the book is that he works so hard to try to protect his family from the harms the world can bring and then turns out to be the source of destruction himself. OK, maybe I have a particularly dark reading of the book??? I don't know but I related to the idea of needing to accept that one cannot control the world around us or control our lives.
I have more characters that I identify with--I will add more to this thread later on.
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