Post by connorswauger on Jun 17, 2024 21:53:56 GMT
I just finished the reading and looked up the author and I read that Mailer had thrown a party in 1960 before he was to announce his candidacy for Mayor of New York. During this party Mailer was reported to have been challenging guests to fight him and then had nearly killed his second wife, Adele Morales, by stabbing her twice. Once in the back and the second time in the chest near her heart. Multiple articles say different things on how this event transpired, but after his death, his daughter came out and attested to her father’s anger and aggression towards women.
After learning of this, I’m thinking of how the female characters in Barbary Shore were written and treated from Guinevere to Lannie and even how Hollingsworth treated the waitresses at the diner and how they reflect Mailer’s Anti-Feminist attitudes.
There are many articles on Mailer’s conduct throughout his later life and I’d like to hear y’all’s thoughts on this.
Here’s a link to one of the articles I read.
apple.news/A7dA7HW-WQpWBNeJ4c2w2tA
After learning of this, I’m thinking of how the female characters in Barbary Shore were written and treated from Guinevere to Lannie and even how Hollingsworth treated the waitresses at the diner and how they reflect Mailer’s Anti-Feminist attitudes.
There are many articles on Mailer’s conduct throughout his later life and I’d like to hear y’all’s thoughts on this.
Here’s a link to one of the articles I read.
apple.news/A7dA7HW-WQpWBNeJ4c2w2tA
