{"id":4274,"date":"2012-06-13T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:17:22","slug":"bullshot-gc-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-gc-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: GC Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"

JH:<\/strong> In an interview with Luna Park<\/a> I was asked about The Winner<\/a>‘s “silent and repressed” narrator who refuses to help his wife. I said:<\/p>\n

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“I think it\u2019s charitable to call the narrator \u201csilent and repressed,\u201d as I see that guy as an outright jerk. I suppose he could stand to represent a bastardized form of masculinity, an exaggerated (or not) example of the old guard. But in a story so short I take it that everything is amplified, and I see him essentially as a caricature of that prehistoric mindset, drawn to effect the irony at the end, that what he\u2019s \u201cwon\u201d is only a household full of anguish.”\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Did I get this right or am I way off?<\/p>\n

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GCP:<\/strong> I like the idea of him winning ‘only a household of anguish’.\u00a0 Basically, I think the story is about consequences.\u00a0She wanted a kid, he didn’t.\u00a0 He “gave her exactly what she wanted” and now he resents and regrets this compromise, to the extent that his wife and child are a constant reminder of his own perceived\u00a0weaknesses and\u00a0frailties.\u00a0 Clearly, he is a jerk (though as a Brit,\u00a0I prefer ‘twat’) because he makes everyone a victim of his bad faith.\u00a0It’s one of those scenarios where they seem\u00a0close to hitting rock-bottom.\u00a0 So I suppose that while it is a sad story, maybe there’s a shred of redemption\u2014maybe they need to hit the bottom and feel what it’s like, before they bounce back up.\u00a0 Then again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The author of “The Winner” speaks his mind on jerks, twats, the rock-bottom and last shreds of redemption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-jerks","writer-jarrett-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17692,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/17692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}