Anne Wilkes In Stephen King — страница 2

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fact, Annie comes to embody all that Sheldon’s heroine Misery’s name suggests. Annie must also be recognized as, “the disparaging remarks of academic critics and reviewers-that seek to confine the art of Sheldon into reductive and therefore safe categories” (Magistrale 126). Annie dictates the course of Sheldon’s newest book. Anything less than perfect receives harsh criticism at the least. Badley re-flects Annie’s representation as an audience, “the novel is about being cut to fit fan expectations” (Badley 175). Sheldon receives direct feedback from his ‘readers’ and is therefore able to produce his best Misery novel, ever. Annie’s destructiveness takes ‘constructive criticism’ to a whole new meaning. In the long run, Sheldon needs the terrible Annie

more than he de-feats her. However, one question remains: If Annie is an image of King’s readership, “How do you think he feels about his readers?” (http://www.faf.buffallo.edu/html/willbern/misery/mis_stud.html). Misery is about the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the reader, as personified in Annie Wilkes. Annie comes to embody a mother, goddess, and audience image in the novel. Whatever the circumstance, Annie’s crea-tive force will live on. Her death will never be a reality, any more than Mis-ery Chastain’s death is a reality.