A post story about Curt Lemon from How To Tell A True War Story. I think The Dentist is the kind of story to slow the reader down after the reader has just finished a complex one (How To Tell A True War Story). It's an intermission. After The Dentist, there will be an even more complex story... The Dentist also characterizes a dead character the reader knew nothing about in the previous chapter. The character being Curt Lemon.
While reading The Dentist, I noticed how Curt Lemon "carries" himself. He was the macho guy; "he had the tendancy to play the tough soldier role, always posturing, always puffing himself up, and on occasion he took it way too far." This occasion was one he took too far. When Lemon was challenged of his manhood with the trip to the dentist, Lemon felt "embarrassed" when he passed out in front of the other soldiers. In order to feel "tough", he forces the dentist to pull out a "perfectly good tooth". Curt Lemon only went back to the dentist for himself, seeming desperate to feel tough again.
I’m afraid of the dentist too and the dentist is my aunt. Embarrassing.
While reading The Dentist, I noticed how Curt Lemon "carries" himself. He was the macho guy; "he had the tendancy to play the tough soldier role, always posturing, always puffing himself up, and on occasion he took it way too far." This occasion was one he took too far. When Lemon was challenged of his manhood with the trip to the dentist, Lemon felt "embarrassed" when he passed out in front of the other soldiers. In order to feel "tough", he forces the dentist to pull out a "perfectly good tooth". Curt Lemon only went back to the dentist for himself, seeming desperate to feel tough again.
I’m afraid of the dentist too and the dentist is my aunt. Embarrassing.
The photo is from the scene of "Little Shop of Horrors". Also, set during the Vietnam War period.
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