winterpromise31 's review for:

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

2.0

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I feel like the odd man out because I didn't like Peter Pan. I've seen several film adaptations (including the play with Mary Martin) but wanted to read the source material. In a way, I'm glad I read it even if I didn't like it. Peter is a selfish bully who never grows up physically or emotionally. He treats other people like garbage who only serve his own selfish purposes. He shows no remorse over any of his actions regardless of how badly others were hurt. I was hoping for some redemption at the end of the story but there was nothing. I couldn't believe how Wendy at the end of the novel

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let her own daughter go off with Peter Pan knowing full well that Peter couldn't even be trusted to remember that his companions exist

! I always want some sort of character arc and was severely disappointed. Yes, I did read a short synopsis about the author himself and why he wrote this story. It made me feel more sympathetic to the author but not the novel.