Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 26, 2008 at 22:16:30 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Back to Duncan's post was Re: This isn't about 'dinner' posted by John Lambert on February 26, 2008 at 18:44:44:
I didn't mean there was prejudice in AR's books.
And you are of course right; but he does reflect very accurately the class assumptions of England at the time in which he set his stories- or at least I think he does, because I was born just as the 'SA' period ended, but I remember them in the adults I knew. Not because he wanted to support or oppose these assumptions, but because the stories were meant to be real and to feel that way. The class assumptions of the characters, from Tedder, the wherrymen, George Owdon, the children, CF, are not described but skilfully implied. You really can do a worthwhile analysis of it all, which is what I presume has been done in 'Mixed Moss'. But I suppose this is whizzy hubcaps territory. The point is that his stories wouldn't have been true to life, or to the characters, if their underlying class assumptions hadn't been included.
It puzzles everybody with any sense. I mean, human beings; how on earth did we get to the moon, eh? Let alone Vancouver.
Eh la... Y'a pas à s'en faire, vieux.