Comments on: A Reaction Sauce http://therumpus.net/2009/08/a-reaction-sauce/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Melissa Price http://therumpus.net/2009/08/a-reaction-sauce/comment-page-1/#comment-7985 Melissa Price Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:00:57 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=29119#comment-7985 I don't think Hallberg "wishes to defend Finch," as you wrote in the intro above -- at least this doesn't appear to be his primary motive for writing the piece. Hallberg's most relevant points about Gladwell's piece: "A more nuanced article might have made the argument that To Kill a Mockingbird has a didactic streak, and that it puts Atticus Finch forward as an allegorical figure of enlightenment. Or that readers of the book have mistakenly read him allegorically, rather than as a human being with human limitations. Or that To Kill a Mockingbird is not a very good book, and is racist to boot." I don’t think Hallberg “wishes to defend Finch,” as you wrote in the intro above — at least this doesn’t appear to be his primary motive for writing the piece.

Hallberg’s most relevant points about Gladwell’s piece:

“A more nuanced article might have made the argument that To Kill a Mockingbird has a didactic streak, and that it puts Atticus Finch forward as an allegorical figure of enlightenment. Or that readers of the book have mistakenly read him allegorically, rather than as a human being with human limitations. Or that To Kill a Mockingbird is not a very good book, and is racist to boot.”

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