frasersimons 's review for:

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

3.0

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Pretty much what I expected. A product of its time, an unusual narrator and perspective. Didactic regarding how children should be and, I guess who possesses imagination even and generally how people ought to grow up and what not. The express idea that Peter is a fairy makes a lot of sense to me. And a changeling was delivered to his real mom, altering him, I guess. Interesting use of that folktale I think, though when it’s conjoined with the idea of everything being an exercise in children having access to this liminal space, it becomes a lot more fantastical at the expense of holding onto themes that would probably be more interesting not being codified.