> But I don't think it essential that a story adopt a
working or lower
> class point of view to be noir. In essence, noir
says everyone is
screwed.
Kerry, I agree with you that the working-class point of view
is not essential to noir. In fact, I think that there is a
pervading sense of noir in Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY. (I
said as much on this list last fall in response to a post by
David White.) Most of the characters in GATSBY are certainly
screwed.
Anyway, I presented a paper arguing that point at last
spring's Fitzgerald conference, and author Budd Schulberg
told me that he thought I was on to something....
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