RE: Aspiring and experienced Writers' discussion thread
September 3, 2015 at 12:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2015 at 12:29 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
The Stand as well has some beautiful character development. The scene where Frannie breaks the news of her unmarried pregnancy to her shrewish grandmother is simply brilliant, it really gets to the core of both those characters in prose that is at once deep and touching, and still not weighed down with bullshit or purple.
It is a great novel for exactly the reasons Thena posits -- by contrasting past and present, it demonstrates how we adults come to have our feet of clay, and still how we retain our inner youth. It's very insightful.
It is a great novel for exactly the reasons Thena posits -- by contrasting past and present, it demonstrates how we adults come to have our feet of clay, and still how we retain our inner youth. It's very insightful.
