Tuesday 14 February 2017

Why do you think Laurie's parents took so long to discover the truth about Charles in Shirley Jackson's short story "Charles"?

In the minds
of some parents, their children can do no wrong. To admit that one's child can have a behavior
problem is to perhaps admit a failure in one's ability to parent. Maybe the reason that Laurie's
parents do not catch on to the fact that their son is describing not a classmate's outrageous
behavior, but in fact his own, is that they are willfully blind to Laurie's
naughtiness.

Laurie's parents may be taking pleasure in their belief that
their superior parenting has produced a son who is not in trouble at school. And the pity that
they...

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