atalantapendrag put it very well when she remarked on Russell's "Amazing Fluctuating Judaism!": in BEEK she shows she's willing to eat pork products (ham, iirc), yet give her the choice of places to go in the world and she suddenly remembers her faith and answers "I desire to walk through Jerusalem".
Perhaps we could try to meta it away? We could argue that her Jewishness was initially put on hold as a result of her mental trauma: when she goes through the cathartic discussion with Holmes about the car crash, that acceptance of her own guilt made her eager to believe in a God with the ability to forgive, hence the fervent renewal of her Judaism. Not that LRK puts that explicitly on the page, but given Russell's preference to keep certain sections of her life from the reader, this thesis could just about work.
Except she doesn't go to synagogue... Oh well, maybe she's hidden her dedicated worship from the reader, just as she "hid" her aunt and her maths tutor in BEEK.
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Date: 2007-06-20 08:15 pm (UTC)Perhaps we could try to meta it away? We could argue that her Jewishness was initially put on hold as a result of her mental trauma: when she goes through the cathartic discussion with Holmes about the car crash, that acceptance of her own guilt made her eager to believe in a God with the ability to forgive, hence the fervent renewal of her Judaism. Not that LRK puts that explicitly on the page, but given Russell's preference to keep certain sections of her life from the reader, this thesis could just about work.
Except she doesn't go to synagogue... Oh well, maybe she's hidden her dedicated worship from the reader, just as she "hid" her aunt and her maths tutor in BEEK.