Subject: Laura Palmer.
From: iru03@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.R. Grove)
Date: 1991-02-28, 03:00
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I`m really having problems trying to understand who Laura really was.
Thinking back on it, she seems to have been totally unrealistic as a
character - justs remember all the things she was supposed to have done:

Delivered meals on wheels.
Looked after Johnny.
Seen Dr. Jacoby.
Seen the Orchid Grower.
Worked in the departmental store.
Worked in One-eyed jacks.
Gone on picnics.
Did drugs.
Go to school (and become very popular).
Go out with Bobby.
Ridden her pony (if that white one was hers).
Kept a diary/tape recordings, in detail.
Met Bob.
Got herself killed.

C`mon folks - even I would have difficulty fitting that all into one
day! I think that Laura is not a real character as such, but a
personification of all the good within us, to act as mirror image of Bob
- the evil within us all (Junge et al.).

Thoughts, suggestions?


Re. - the murder of Maddy - in this scene, it appeared that the
transformation between Bob/Leland is unstable ( note - Lelands referring
to her as his baby). Do you think it`s possible that Bob never really
controls the person that he pocesses, and every now and again the old
character comes through?

When did Bob pocess Leland?


Are the giant/dwarf one of the same person?


Why do I get the sneaking feeling that we haven`t seen or heard the last
of Laura Palmer?


Paul R. Grove.

Dept. of International Relations, University of Keele, UK.

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