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Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions
Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales (view source)
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==Critical Response== | ==Critical Response== | ||
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Susan Mailer, when interviewed, spoke briefly about her father. She said that in her memoir, she wrote the chapter "Silent Spaces" which was about the unavoidable angst that the traumatic event caused for their family. Susan studied in psychoanalysis for many years. When she wrote her memoir, it was her "second analysis." She admits she was afraid of him, but she also understood her fears of him. "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Lennon|2019|pg:114}} | |||
==Personal Response== | ==Personal Response== | ||
After being remanded to Bellevue, Mailer confessed to the judge: “I feel I did a lousy, dirty, cowardly thing.”{{sfn|McKinley|2021|p=3}} | After being remanded to Bellevue, Mailer confessed to the judge: “I feel I did a lousy, dirty, cowardly thing.”{{sfn|McKinley|2021|p=3}} | ||