Thursday, August 21, 2008

The truth

Who do you believe? Is Roseanne a reliable storyteller at age 100? Is Father Gaunt, with his personal vindictiveness, reliable?
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3 comments:

kc said...

I believe Roseanne, if not in every detail, then in her emotional truth. I think Father Gaunt has zero credibility. Roseanne may have misremembered some things or had a misunderstanding of them to begin with — like certain things about her father, how could she remember them accurately if she was never rightly acquainted with them to begin with? But she would not deliberately lie, which I can't say for Gaunt, and she has a coherence of heart and a hunger to make sense of her experience that completely won me over.

7:54 PM, August 21, 2008
kc said...

Also, Roseanne said something very telling on this point: I would rather remember aright than just to remember things so they will stand in my favour. That luxury is not allowed to me.

9:09 PM, August 21, 2008
Erin said...

Yes, I think you're right. I think absolutely Father Gaunt would have altered the story so it would stand in his favor. I had a similar feeling to Dr. Grene at the end: Maybe Roseanne's father was a police officer and maybe he wasn't, but it doesn't really matter. Roseanne's emotional truth matters more.

11:36 PM, August 23, 2008

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