<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div>Wolfe outside the text doesn't portray that attitude very much - it's more like, if you were paying attention, there are no secrets. (Our vice is failure to observe what is important - but I suppose that actually is a vice of his narrators in general.) <br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Fernando Gouvea<br> </font><br>
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I think there may also be a sort of slantwise commentary on us, who
investigate Wolfe's work with a view to finding out all the hidden
secrets. After all, the narrator of Home Fires keeps trying to
figure things out, and in so doing he keeps getting himself and
those around him in trouble. You can almost see the book as a
commentary on the vice of curiosity.<br>
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