This is a play in which people get about what they expect. Not what they deserve; what they expect.
That is . . . more horrible than either the play being taken over by Kushner's hypothetical abandonment issues, or the play mishandling its argument about Joe's politics. That's neither justice (which, Belize, is not "easy", thankyouverymuch) nor mercy nor, I think, liberalism either. It reminds me of blinkered arguments from a certain strain of conservative about bootstraps and individual effort and all that kind of thing.
And yes, of course Harper taking him back would have been horrible for both of them, I was attempting to illustrate his complete isolation and her reaction to him rather than argue that she should have agreed.
The play should perhaps smack him around for trying to return, but Harper's comments and her decision are all made before that. More on this to wrabbit below.
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Date: 2011-07-25 04:28 pm (UTC)That is . . . more horrible than either the play being taken over by Kushner's hypothetical abandonment issues, or the play mishandling its argument about Joe's politics. That's neither justice (which, Belize, is not "easy", thankyouverymuch) nor mercy nor, I think, liberalism either. It reminds me of blinkered arguments from a certain strain of conservative about bootstraps and individual effort and all that kind of thing.
And yes, of course Harper taking him back would have been horrible for both of them, I was attempting to illustrate his complete isolation and her reaction to him rather than argue that she should have agreed.
The play should perhaps smack him around for trying to return, but Harper's comments and her decision are all made before that. More on this to wrabbit below.