Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Motherlode by Thomas McGuane

David, David, David....
What was he thinking?

 I'll tell you what he was thinking! David was probably thinking the same exact thing I was. Somehow we were going to get rid of Ray not by murdering him or anything dramatic but just by exposing him as a fraud.   I figure in some uncomfortable way he would just leave.  ( I thought Morsel would no longer be interested in him when he said, "do you want some of this"?   Joking or not, that was inappropriate! ) David and Morsel would then hook up and live happily ever after! Rich on the farm, Have the plane and maybe do an occasional drug deal and live a comfortable life.
Not perfect or 100% ethical but when they later revealed that her dad was becoming more dependent and incapable of caring for himself I figured they could take care of him.
 Though this was a fiction story, I feel like it had a lot of reality in it. A "simple drug deal" eventually goes south  when Ray and Morsel are doublecrossed catching David in the crossfire and if you live by the sword you die by the sword.
 A little long but well written… And though I believe my preference is to have a clean happy ending I feel that this at least made sense and left no loose ends, except for David's Mom will never know what happened to him.

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