O'Connor, A Stroke of Good Fortune: The goat and the children
O'Connor, ''A Stroke of Good Fortune'' -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
He looked like a goat. ... In the mornings he studied and in the afternoons, he walked up and down the sidewalks, stopping children and asking them questions.
This passage reminded me of e.e. cummings "in Just-," a poem in which a goat-footed "balloon man" lures children to him. The goat is often considered a devilish symbol in criticism.
Comments
That is interesting to know Chris...This could give the older man a new "stalkish, evilness" to him that I did not realize before. I just saw the old man as a symbol of intellegence and he reminded me of my grandfather who is always filling his grandchildrens heads with knowledge. Cool thought.
Posted by: Terra Stumpf | March 20, 2006 12:35 PM