He added little gems in there like an Edgar Wallace Plot Wheel (pg 16) no clue what it is but it inspired me to look it up. Also how to jump start a backhoe if I ever need to...wonder if it really is the real way to do it?
Yes. SK has a way of catching me up in to the story. This one had me from that first line like AchtungBaby mentioned. He kept doing that throughout the story.
"He slipped - Dolan."
"They never found him - Dolan."
"He was reported missing - Dolan."
. It kept jarring me each time.
And as for Elizabeth's voice getting more insistent as he was ready to give up...
her ghost was anxious to just get it over with. After it was over, her voice was finalist silent, too. At peace.
I didn't reread Dolan's Cadillac although I have read the story multiple times. Curious, the use of color in this story...as those same colors relate to other stories from King...Duma Key...Deadzone...the obligatory spoiler:
In Duma Key, Wireman's beach buggy...golf cart?...had blue and yellow stripes. In Dolan's Cadillac, there is that business with the blue and yellow wires making the backhoe go. In Deadzone, the young child's snowsuit is blue and yellow...the young child held up as a shield....and who has proudly used young children as a shield and who has proudly defended their actions? What's it all about? A fascination with blue and yellow? The colors of the Swedish flag? Blue and yellow make green...or...I think my Crayolas did that...but memory being what it is...maybe all that is is poetic license unwarranted. I believe there are/could be other uses of the blue-yellow combination in other stories. Or are they bools...to borrow from another King story...too, there is definitely the use of a single color...blue.
Maybe the material in the spoiler relates to Robinson, his actions, his reason for living, revenge. The colors make green. Is that color symbolic in the SK universe? Simply details? Nothing more? Is Robinson heroic, in the literary sense? In the sense that most of the Big Talking Heads have defined the hero in literature? What would Homer do? Not Simpson. Is Dolan an Odysseus and Dolan's Cadillac nothing more than a Trojan Horse?
Hey Walt! Great observation! I actually did have a spark of deja-vu when I was reading about the blue and yellow because I had just finished rereading The Dead Zone a couple days ago! I didn't remember the Duma Key connection because it has been quite a few years since I read that one-once again, I applaud your keen observation! I love stuff like that!
Yellow and blue makes green...the green-eyed monster...jealousy? In Johnny's case in The Dead Zone-jealous of the "normalcy" others had and of the life and love he was robbed of...In Dolan'sCadillac, jealousy that Dolan was living like a king while Robinson's wife (and his whole world) had been ripped away from him. In both stories, the main character was undeserving of the horrific blows dealt to him.
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