http://serenae.com/2007/04/11/jennie/ Freelance Creativity Sun, 06 May 2012 23:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://serenae.com/2007/04/11/jennie/comment-page-1/#comment-154 tyler Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:12:06 +0000 http://serena.umwblogs.org/2007/04/11/jennie/#comment-154 Jennie's a muse, bemuses Eben. I think this story is more about art than anything else- she's inspiration. Someone in class said that Jennie might be some sort of eternal feminine muse, and that's my opinion too. She comes into Eben's life, energizes it, then leaves it but she's not really dead. Never was really alive. Jennie’s a muse, bemuses Eben. I think this story is more about art than anything else- she’s inspiration. Someone in class said that Jennie might be some sort of eternal feminine muse, and that’s my opinion too. She comes into Eben’s life, energizes it, then leaves it but she’s not really dead. Never was really alive.

]]> http://serenae.com/2007/04/11/jennie/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Carmen Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:59:16 +0000 http://serena.umwblogs.org/2007/04/11/jennie/#comment-153 I think it's interesting to note that Eben is almost Eden. I think it’s interesting to note that Eben is almost Eden.

]]> http://serenae.com/2007/04/11/jennie/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Robyn Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:41:20 +0000 http://serena.umwblogs.org/2007/04/11/jennie/#comment-152 Maybe this is totally off the mark, but Jennie might represent God for Eben. A central theme in the novel seems to be that "sooner or later God asks His question: are you for me, or against me? And the artist must have some answer, or feel his heart break for what he cannot say"(2). Eben never really answers the question of his belief in God. But he does believe in Jennie. He says that "One must sometimes believe what one cannot understand" (60). Eben has faith in Jennie, even though he doesn't know why, and has no proof of her existence. That sounds too much like God to me to be coincidence. Maybe this is totally off the mark, but Jennie might represent God for Eben. A central theme in the novel seems to be that “sooner or later God asks His question: are you for me, or against me? And the artist must have some answer, or feel his heart break for what he cannot say”(2). Eben never really answers the question of his belief in God. But he does believe in Jennie. He says that “One must sometimes believe what one cannot understand” (60). Eben has faith in Jennie, even though he doesn’t know why, and has no proof of her existence. That sounds too much like God to me to be coincidence.

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