Current Search: Percy, Walker,--1916---Criticism and interpretation (x)
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Title
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LOVE IN WALKER PERCY: A FLIGHT FROM ANCESTRY.
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Creator
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LADOFF, AUDREY LOIS., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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Abstract/Description
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The principles of traditional psychiatry demonstrate how the fathers of all Percy's protagonists are the dominant forces in shaping their sons' adult love relationships. Cold and formidable figures, each prevents his son from developing a sense of confidence and self-esteem. The heroes, then, still trying to win a parent's approval after his death, become attached to women of whom their fathers would have approved. At the same time, each forms an even stronger bond with a new father figure to...
Show moreThe principles of traditional psychiatry demonstrate how the fathers of all Percy's protagonists are the dominant forces in shaping their sons' adult love relationships. Cold and formidable figures, each prevents his son from developing a sense of confidence and self-esteem. The heroes, then, still trying to win a parent's approval after his death, become attached to women of whom their fathers would have approved. At the same time, each forms an even stronger bond with a new father figure to replace the one he never really had. However, as the parents in The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and Lancelot all had weak marriages, those of their offspring are also doomed to failure. It is only when Will Barrett of The Second Coming rejects his father's values in retrospect and forms his own superego that a Percyan hero finally chooses an appropriate marriage partner and the novel ends happily.
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Date Issued
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1984
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14210
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Subject Headings
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Percy, Walker,--1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation, Percy, Walker,--1916---Criticism and interpretation
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Format
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Document (PDF)
