I Started Rereading The Secret History

When people hate on The Secret History for being pretentious or slow paced. I am like you fool, you absolute fool, you don't know anything. You fell on her tramp.

Oh I loved it at the beginning but then it got too complicated. You mean you had the same emotions as Richard through the book, Did you hate the characters at the end? Did it make you pop your own bubble? Oh you absolute fool.

This book is meant to make you feel like Richard, totally enamored at first and then so disgusted and preturbed by the characters. Were they too human? Womp Womp bitch.

I think one of the slept on things that makes The Secret History feel like a real world is Donna Tartt's willingness to introduce a character that is just never brought up again (or brought up once or twice again.)

Because i'm real life, not every person you meet is going to have significance in your life. Not everyone is going to change that plot. Think about the teacher that takes over when Julian leaves. Or the farmer who claims to have seen Bunny. Or Richard's one night stand. Even the man stalking Henry and Bunny in Italy doesn't show up later.

And not only does this fill the gaps in the world, it absolutely helps build suspense. You never know if a character might have significance later, because there's simply no pattern to follow. It keeps you guessing.

Did I mention I started rereading The Secret History

Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

beans (headshots) agaen..

“every hawkeye needs a black widow”

''the secret history vibe is studying hard and loving the classics'' so close! the secret history vibe is a close group of pretentious idiots who secretly hate each other murdering people for the vibe and ignoring the concepts of the moon landing and hypothermia

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"Pigs are unable to lift their heads, so they live their entire life staring at the ground. There is only one way for a pig to look up at the sky. It's to fall down. That's right."

The Good bad mother (2023) Ep.01

I want my first date to be we climb on top of the roof of our school with our illegally made radio and dance around listening to it.

Is this to much to ask for

in my richard papen era(failing academics, in need of friends, romantising things i don't even understand)