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- Title
“Do You Love Mother, Norman?”: Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” and Metalious's Peyton Place as Sources for Robert Bloch's Psycho.
- Authors
McDERMOTT, JOHN A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the resemblance of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho" and Grace Metalious' "Peyton Place" with William Faulkner's "A Rose for Family." The author states that it is easy to overlook Metalious' use of Southern Gothic such as Faulkner's "A Rose for Family" and the striking resemblance between Norman Page, one of the central characters in "Peyton Place" with Norman Bates, the central character in Bloch's "Psycho" because Metalious's novel is often mistaken as a sex/gossip/glamour fantasy novel. He added that the similarities between "Peyton Place" and "Psycho" are very evident; the trials of the "mama's boys" of both books and the exploration of the Oedipal complex played out in sexual angst, deceit, violent impulses and murder.
- Subjects
PSYCHO (Book); PEYTON Place (Book); FAULKNER, William, 1897-1962; BLOCH, Robert, 1917-1994; METALIOUS, Grace; BATES, Norman (Fictional character); STORY plots; LITERATURE; FICTION
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2007, Vol 40, Issue 3, p454
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00403.x