From: Hastings, Waller <hastingw>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:38:14 -0500

Jonathan Hunt said:

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        Paterson has written, in one of the essays in *A Sense of Wonder*, that she wishes she could write fantasy, but that her imagination doesn't work in that way. (That at least is the gist of it - I am citing from memory.) She does make use of various elements of fantasy imagery in various books - I seem to recall use of the Tolkien books in *The Great Gilly Hopkins*, and one could make a case for fairy-tale structural elements in *Jacob I Have Loved* (the sibling rivalry, a "good" and "bad" sister but which is which? :) - the sense that whatever they do, one sister always comes out wonderfully while the other fails (perhaps it would be instructive to look at *Jacob* as a two-sister fairy tale like "Diamonds and Toads," only told from the point of view of the sister who fails?)).

Waller Hastings Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401 hastingw at nsuexchange.northern.edu http://lupus.northern.edu:90/hastingw/index.html
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