The GA's world view


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Posted by Jock on August 30, 2007 at 06:16:09 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: The 'Miss Turner' slur (was The 'Miss Nancy' enigma posted by John Giddy on August 30, 2007 at 00:12:42:

the GA being determined to maintain "standards" in an era which was rapidly departing from her comfort zone as regards behaviour.

This is very close to the view I have come to. The GA determination to maintain standards is concerned not only concerned with Nancy and Peggy's appearance, behaviour and friends. She fights her battles on a number of other fronts: the behaviour of the Beckfoot servants, the physical state of Beckfoot's grounds, the performance of the Vicar.

A child reader sees the GA as an enemy. If Nancy is the 'Harry Potter' of the Lake books, the GA is 'Lord Voldemort'. But the GA is no cardboard stereotype, but a carefully crafted complex character. I wonder if all parents in the 1930's, a time of great social flux, approved of the way the Swallows and Amazons 'ran wild'?

For those parents who had their doubts, the absurdity of the GA alternative is their answer. Perhaps, even today, some of us adult readers, may find traces of the GA in our own world view? Maybe here we can find AR's elusive 'message' alluded to by Peter H?


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