Blog 3!!!!!
Friendship – in literature, less about supporting each other and having fun together, and more about proceeding the plot. As B.D. McClay writes, “when dramatized, friendship often becomes retrospective: it’s about the friends you left behind.” Of course, no-one expects fictional stories to have an accurate and life-like representation of friendship. However, why must friendship, in all of its positive, blissful pleasures and spiteful drama, be reduced to the gap it leaves after it’s gone? McCray brings up an interesting point on the under-representation of friendship in literature: friendship in and of itself can be distant without suffering. “How do you tell a story about a relationship that remains, at heart, stable and that has no endpoint toward which to go?” In addition to that, friendship is at its most passionate during c...