A reader on a Facebook group (about reading), that I am a part of, has an interesting hypothesis. And I believe there may be some truth to it. Perhaps Harper Lee did not write Go Set a Watchman at all. The style is nothing like To Kill A Mockingbird. The depth of writing is much weaker. And would Lee, writing in the 50s, really have presented Scout as a hard-hearted feminist? With such a deep concern for the racial problems of the day? Reading from a 21st century bias, we see many such characters today. But in the 50s, they just did not exist.
Here is a celebrated author, in a nursing home, with no lawyer-sister here any more to defend and protect her interests, and who is not as lucid as she once was. It might be fairly easy to pull off such a hoax.
It will be interesting to see if this story develops in the days (or years) to come.
1 comment:
I was so curious to hear your opinion about the new book. I enjoyed your review in a previous post. I've read To Kill a Mockingbird but more remember watching it with the family at Christmas in the early 90s.
This is an interesting theory and I will look forward to hearing if it develops in the future.
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