Posted on 02/19/2016 7:51:13 AM PST by Borges
How did her follow up book (which shockingly portrayed Atticus Finch as a KKK supporter ) do in the market?
RIP Harper Lee.
A legendary figure among writers.
Just saw a comment by a guy who said she helped destroy the world by moral relativism.
I don’t really understand what that means. Anybody?
So passes an observer of a different time. Thank you Ms Lee, I have enjoyed your book and the movie many many times.
Moral Relativism is a ‘catch all’ term people use about stuff they don’t understand or find ambiguous.
Her publisher gave her some solid advice, I doubt if she released the other novel first that she’d be remembered.
RIP to a “roll tide” alum.
There was another book that she wrote which came out last summer.
Whatever her faults, Harper Lee did not invent moral relativism.
I agree with Borges. Her characters were morally ambiguous, but that is just good character development.
I think it means her characters were not simple caricatures of good suffering coloreds and evil whites. They were real human beings living in complex social situations and reacting in flawed and imperfect ways, sometimes heroically, in some ways cowardly, with malice, with charity. The world she presents is chaotic, confusing, infuriating, and morally convoluted.
She was obviously a bad person to see the world this way.
A shame. I enjoyed both her books though the first one far more than the last.
It did OK in the market based on pre-release hype alone, though critics (and most others who read it) hated it. Not only because of the KKK stuff, but also because it just wasn't very good (at least as compared to the original).
It seems pretty clear that the book should never have been released (and that Lee was very likely manipulated into agreeing to release it)
I have no idea what that comment is supposed to mean with respect to Harper Lee.
With respect to the commentator himself, though, I think it means that some people have an overwhelming need to be contrarian and hate things that others love.
Prob the most realistic explanation. Yes, I can see that one.
It sold well over a million copies. Maybe over two million.
In any case, Lee, like JD Salinger and Margaret Mitchell, achieved almost all of her fame from a single work (although she and Salinger wrote more than one).
Well Mitchell died before she could write a follow up. Salinger published some really fine short fiction that many prefer to his one novel.
"Go Set a Watchman". Not as good as her first book was.
Pillow over the head?
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