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"Finding out things like that": film and the search for reality in BUtterfield 8.
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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March 1, 2008
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In BUtterfield 8, characters' understanding of the world reflects an engagement with the pervasive culture of film and an awareness of film's power to affect reality. This results in individuals' intensified, but increasingly futile, attempts to grasp at truth about both themselves and their world.
In John O'Hara's second novel BUtterfield 8, Gloria Wandrous imagines her friend's future married life as a "motion picture," which she tries to reject as simply her own fantasy. She cannot dismiss it, however, "because the picture was accurate, and she knew it" (187). Gloria does not draw on the experience of other people she knows to envision her friend's fate, nor can she imagine ...
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