Comments on: Where are they now? http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/where-are-they-now/ That Ted Forrester's nice-looking, isn't he? Veda likes him. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:09:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kempis http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/where-are-they-now/#comment-390 Kempis Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:54:28 +0000 http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/where-are-they-now/#comment-390 John Bylander wrote: <i>Is this myth of ho-hum, farmlife, buttermilquetoast, don’tchaknow bobby bumpkins a self-preservation history amnesia thing, like the myth of Southern Hospitality? Or is this just the other side of a reality which is in fact, in a real day to day way, informed by simple, homestyle values, like the actual reality of a lot of Southerners?</i> It's both. Most people don't want to know or focus on the fact that Ward came home drunk every night after work and the beat Wally and the Beav mercilessly, that June seduced Lumpy one afternoon when he stopped by looking for Wally but no one else was home, or that Eddy Haskell really was secretly gay and lived in terror that someone would find out. Instead they choose to downplay the bad and remember things through an idealized nostalgia. The good exists side by side with the truly awful. What one focuses on depends entirely on the parts of the story one is able to cope with. Or was that just a hypothetical question? John Bylander wrote: Is this myth of ho-hum, farmlife, buttermilquetoast, don’tchaknow bobby bumpkins a self-preservation history amnesia thing, like the myth of Southern Hospitality? Or is this just the other side of a reality which is in fact, in a real day to day way, informed by simple, homestyle values, like the actual reality of a lot of Southerners?

It’s both.

Most people don’t want to know or focus on the fact that Ward came home drunk every night after work and the beat Wally and the Beav mercilessly, that June seduced Lumpy one afternoon when he stopped by looking for Wally but no one else was home, or that Eddy Haskell really was secretly gay and lived in terror that someone would find out. Instead they choose to downplay the bad and remember things through an idealized nostalgia.

The good exists side by side with the truly awful. What one focuses on depends entirely on the parts of the story one is able to cope with.

Or was that just a hypothetical question?

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