Wish I could just read literary criticism of Peter Pan instead of writing about software
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Yes! I was thinking there were two, but didn't remember offhand
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And at the end of Peter and Wendy, he says Mrs. Darling died and everyone forgot about her
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In context with LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE, it reads as especially Psycho-esque
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In Peter and Wendy, zero men grow up and women are grown up from birth and all the men want is to be mothered, which they resent.
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ALSO in the play, the same actor plays Mr. Darling and Capt. Hook??
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YEP and they used that in a recent movie production of it and it worked really well, but also is creepy af
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I never liked the book, but I first encountered Barrie's many problems in Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.
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Y'all, this is THE TIP OF THE WEIRDNESS ICEBERG. That family was the DuMaurier family. Grandfather was super into hypnotism --
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Wrote the classic story about Trilby (which the hat is named for) and her controlling Svengali. His kids included the author of Rebecca.
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His closest daughter is the mother of The Boys that Barrie would go on to become obsessed with. Speculation she was ALSO into hypnosis.
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Daphne DuMaurier wouldn't let her info about her fam be published until everyone was dead, including her. So. There's that.
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Also have you read the surviving pieces of his first play before Peter Pan, which is more blatantly about Michael and v uh "child loving"?
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Also worth reading: Barrie's love letters to Michael while he's off in WW1 (and thus finally 18. Legal! Yes, it gets mentioned.)
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