I knew the first time I heard Dirks Bentley's I hold on, that was her husband. Holding on to the past, his roots, his old truck and guitar, his family's name and his new family.
I don't have a song that jumps out at me as Addie. Right now I say it is Automatic by Maranda Lambert because I think there were certain things she saw growing up in a small town that she thought she wanted/needed/ deserved and/or was destined for. And I think a lot of struggle is being happy with what she has. And I think a lot of Her husband's struggle is having nothing and being happier than she is. I read last night that a main character needs to be brave, thoughtful, ect. All these bs traits that make them likeable. And right now even though I like Addie, she's not very likeable. Her husband is a hell of a lot more likeable than she is. Which is funny because since Addie is the narrator she spends a lot of time talking about him and I questioned last summer if this story is really about her or if it's about him.
But tonight I think the whole not wanting to go back issue she has coinsides with a song and a group I forgot about until today when I was looking at Amy Grant's wiki. ( She married vince gill who according to her wiki was married to Janis from Sweethearts of the Rodeo.)
I need to spend some time getting to the core of what this novel is about. Famous living dead was so easy. I had that person find Jenny's blog by searching " how to love someone famous" which was so meta.
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