I've read SK's comments on Misery being about addiction, he said that Kathy Bates "is cocaine"and also SK was recovering from accident with painful shattered legs and regularly dosed with painkillers, no accident that so much of the novel focuses on broken legs and in some way may exercise wish fulfillment in the editorial amputation of a painful limb. The image of the novel that returns is one of the wooden piles sticking out of the water, broken painful things that are always there but the tides of painkilling medication successfully submerge them.
Does any other reader/writer out there view the central relationship in Misery as a metaphor for the writing process? KB is in some dark twisted dream world the total provider, food, drugs and the spur to the writing process... I would like to internalize KB to help me finish writing. Do you see her as reader appetite or full throttle narrative drive?
Thanks
P.S I'm being a dirty bird again-- haven't got out of my romper suit for a week because of Lock Down -- time is immaterial
Does any other reader/writer out there view the central relationship in Misery as a metaphor for the writing process? KB is in some dark twisted dream world the total provider, food, drugs and the spur to the writing process... I would like to internalize KB to help me finish writing. Do you see her as reader appetite or full throttle narrative drive?
Thanks
P.S I'm being a dirty bird again-- haven't got out of my romper suit for a week because of Lock Down -- time is immaterial
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