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The page I dog-eared in chapter 3 was the problem all along
Last Tuesday in our group on Faulkner, someone pointed out that I kept defending a character based on a line I'd underlined, but I had misread who said it for 40 pages, so my whole take was built on nothing. That moment made me realize I've been skipping the narrator's framing and jumping to dialogue for nearly 2 years of meetings, and it's probably why I always argued the opposite of everyone else. Has anyone else had a reading habit that secretly warped their opinions without them noticing until a stranger called it out?
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scott.drew11d ago
The whole take built on nothing is such a mood, honestly. I spent like three weeks in my book club last year ranting about how selfish some guy was and then found out the line I built my whole case on was the narrator being sarcastic. Two years of doing this though, that is kind of impressive in a painful way. Maybe it's just me but half of lit class is just figuring out who is even talking, and nobody warns you about it. Anyway at least now you know why you were always the odd one out in every argument, which is weirdly freeing.
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