06-01-2023, 07:37 PM
Is Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, for children, or adults?
The answer to that lies in understanding J. M. Barrie's peculiar relationship with children who were not his own. Pan is a character that to a significant degree reflects those relationships. It's said that he never consummated his marriage, was a fetishist, and a stalker. Some would say he was a pedophile, but it seems to me that his attraction was about emotional manipulation and control, which is probably no less damaging.
The answer to that lies in understanding J. M. Barrie's peculiar relationship with children who were not his own. Pan is a character that to a significant degree reflects those relationships. It's said that he never consummated his marriage, was a fetishist, and a stalker. Some would say he was a pedophile, but it seems to me that his attraction was about emotional manipulation and control, which is probably no less damaging.