WOMEN AND WALLACE
In the very next scene, his mother kills herself with a kitchen knife. This leaves Wallace, six years old at the time, confused and set up for a pretty messed-up life. We know he’s troubled because he tells us. Besides, he drinks a mix of Pepto-Bismol and seltzer like water, breaks drinking glasses to get his father’s attention, and goes to a shrink. He also has bad dreams and writes angst-filled poems with such titles as “Broken Glasses,” “My Mother’s Turtlenecks,” and “Tyrannosaurus Rex.” If all that weren’t enough to convince us, Wallace spells it out even more clearly. “It all goes back to my fucking coward mother,” he says. “And if she hadn’t offed herself, I wouldn’t have any problems.”
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It makes you wonder why somebody didn’t sit Speck and Gacy down for milk and cookies.
