Grace Paley on Plot
Sunday, February 7, 2010
[Paley] insists that life continues beyond the confining plots of tragedy or comedy; she hates plot, "because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real, or invented, deserves the open destiny of life."
A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter, pg 462,
Leave it to Paley to so brilliantly express this particular propulsion that in so many ways defines my own approach to my work: Everyone deserves the open destiny of a life.
3 comments:
Beautifully said and I couldn't agree more. It was hope that got me through the roughest patches in my life and it will be hope that paves the way ahead. (Hugs)Indigo
How do you do it?
*Every* time I come here you give me something new and wondrous to ponder...
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A.
Beautiful photo, Beth!
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