Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Real or Not Real
After reading Shirley Jackson's The Daemon Lover, I have to ask.. is Jamie Harris even a real person?? The girl cannot seem to picture his face, but claims that is because of love, which I thought odd. Her only descriptions were tall, handsome and that he often wears a blue suit. These details could describe a number of people. I am just confused about rather or not this guy exists or not and what was going on in that weird room at the end. That just came out of nowhere. I don't know who was covering this story for this week, but let me know your thoughts.
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Yeah I have to agree with you. Through this whole story it really seemed like the only answers she was getting out of people she either had to overfeed them information about Jamie, or it seemed like they just agreed with her to keep her happy. I couldnt help but think that this was a case of an unreliable narrator and that the lady in the story had imagined Jamie and is slowly losing her mind. I could easily be way off with this guess, but I doubt if there ever was a Jamie Harris too.
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