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starflicker 's review for:
Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Good God I just finished it today and I’m devastated and need to air off somewhere. Not at all what I expected , sharply more painful and tragic and raw than I would have thought for an enduring children’s classic. Peter carries inner trauma that contrasts sharply with the carefree persona we see in Peter Pan. He rejects his parents and growing up, but he also misses having a mother. And he has bad dreams that need comforting but until Wendy comes there’s no one to console the inner child in him. And there’s a good bit of sadistic violence with the pirates and Hook, juxtaposed with tender whimsical fantasy in the little cosy house where Wendy is mother. All in all, it’s just haunting. Wreaked emotional havoc with me and left me wondering what wounds the author carried to write so?
Of course the answer came when I read his life, as I knew it would. It was a devastating life, marked by his older brother dying the day before his 14th. Peter Pan is the older brother who never grew up.
Of course the answer came when I read his life, as I knew it would. It was a devastating life, marked by his older brother dying the day before his 14th. Peter Pan is the older brother who never grew up.