Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 17, 2017

Shoot, married people usually don’t understand them, either!

I think being six years old might also make it a little difficult. Most six year olds are doing well to grasp Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Many of the Eng Lit students I tutor have the same reaction to Ethan Frome. I have been a married person for nearly 36 years and I hope I never enter into the Frome dynamic.

All I can remember about Ethan Frome was a big to do over a pickle dish.

I liked him in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and After Midnight

My Dad got in trouble for an answer like that. His English Lit professor asked the class to explain what a poet they were studying was thinking when he wrote a particular poem. Dad wrote that, since the poet had been dead for over a hundred years, it would presumptuous of us to assume to know what he was thinking. He told it like it was, and it was not appreciated.

I’m impressed that an elementary school student was able to read such a book, of course that was back in the day.

I’ve never committed murder, so I don’t understand the emotions in mystery novels. Never flew on a spaceship so I don’t understand the emotions in science fiction novels. I’m neither a vampire nor a werewolf—you get the idea.

I thought Ethan Frome was the name of the author.

TGFG

(Thank Goodness for Google)

xxx

Some folks like their life like a soap opera. Lots of drama!

Ethan Frome was terrible. I have never understood why it is taught in school, except as a means to make kids hate reading. Depressing, not much happens, and everyone ends up poorly in one way or another.

My summation of the book (sorry, not sorry for spoilers, I’m doing you a favor):- Ethan is unhappy in his marriage to a prissy and sickly wife- A young woman comes to help care for the wife- Ethan falls in love with the young woman- Ethan won’t betray his wife, so instead he goes on a sled ride with the young woman- Sled crashes: she dies, and he is paralyzed.- The End.