Everyone Remembers Where They Were When Reading 'the Snow In The Mountains Was Melting And Bunny Had

Everyone remembers where they were when reading 'the snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation' for the first time.

i wake up and i am immediately thinking about those characters. i eat breakfast and i am thinking about those characters. i do chores and i am thinking about those characters. i do any work, i study, i walk the dogs, and i am thinking about those characters. i go to bed and i am thinkign

Camilla isn’t a “not like other girls” character. She’s a lot more “like” other girls in some ways than one may think. RICHARD believes she is not. RICHARD believes that men inherently more intelligent, interesting, authentic and deep than women are, so he thinks that Camilla being an intelligent, interesting person who is engaged in intellectual pursuits as well as the inherent seclusion from her peers that comes with being in the Greek class MAKES her separate from other women. I think the fandom fails to consider that and makes Camilla out to be more gender non-conforming than she is. The “she was still a girl” paragraph is very telling and I think often overlooked because it doesn’t validate that narrative. Camilla is not a Donna Tartt expy. Camilla’s ending fate being complete solitude is a cosmic punishment because Camilla has lived her entire life finding strength in her connections to others. Her and Charles are twins but the role she plays in their dynamic is of the caretaker, and a part of his breakdown is caused by his loss of stability when they divide. She spends the last years of her grandmother’s life as her grandmother’s caretaker. She is not going to ever finish her degree or go on adventures or be a strong independent career woman. She’s going to wilt in solitude. The only reason she ever gives for refusing Richard’s marriage proposal isn’t that she doesn’t want to be tied down or that she wants to go and branch out and see the world, it’s that she doesn’t love him, she loves Henry. She would have said yes if it was Henry. She would have rather been Henry Winter’s wife than a classicist or scholar in her own right. This is not convenient for The Secret History’s fandom discourse and it is not very “feminist”, but it is true.

I would KILL to read TSH from Bunny’s POV. It would make for the perfect Greek tragedy and a killer thriller. Imagine reading his descent into insanity and paranoia. Imagine Italy from his perspective; his secret, almost sinful confessions to Julian; his pillow talks with Marion. I want to feel Henry’s betrayal and Bunny’s unease. I would eat that shit UP

Everyone remembers where they were when reading 'the snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation' for the first time.

If The Secret History ever does become a movie or tv series, I ask that Francis be wearing a different outfit in every scene he is in.