What subtexts in books read by you, you didn’t understand if those weren’t stated directly?
I remember that reading “The Catcher in the Rye” I didn’t get that Holden was undergoing treatment in a mental hospital (until some time later I watched a movie in one scene of which students were discussing the book with their teacher). I also didn’t understand that “heaven” the main character of Palahniuk’s “Fight Club” was in at the end wasn’t heaven in fact but a hospital as well. I can also recall that I didn’t understand “Other voices, other rooms” by Capote was about a boy discovering his gayness.
21 Jan 2009, 1:11 pm
