Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions

In an interview, Mailer was asked if he drank often. Mailer went on to say the only time he ever drank heavily was when a marriage was breaking up.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=50}} When asked why Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, Mailer opts out of talking about it saying that he'd maybe write about it later.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=52}} He was then asked if he hated women to which he responds that he doesn't hate them, however, he does get irritated with them differently than he does with men.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=52}} Mailer said he considers himself "apart of the generation, who considers fucking up an interesting way to express yourself, a way to do things."{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=50}} When asked how he considers himself one, he mentions how he'd lost some books that could've been written, but he was too absorbed in himself and his problems.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=50}} He thinks he's one because he went into debt. Nowhere does he mention his crimes against Adele.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=50}}