Subject: Re: Laura Palmer.
From: keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely)
Date: 1991-02-28, 11:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In a previous article, iru03@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.R. Grove) says:

> >
> >
> >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?
> >
Only one:
I would hardly call doing drugs and working at OEJ's the personification of
good.  She also makes mention of all kinds of sexual acts, including raping
Harold in the diary...something else I wouldn't quite call 'good'.
Laura has both good and bad qualities.  Perhaps these qualities are brought
to an extreme...and maybe in that way she is unrealistic...

Yours,
Keith

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