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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
True. In some ways The Natural is as much about baseball as The Old Man and the Sea was about fishing.
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Spot on! I read this as a heathen whose knowledge of baseball and its mythologies is zero, so I'm finding the comments of the afficionados of great interest.
For me it is the story of a fatally flawed and shallow man who somehow failed to develop after he was shot, and seemed to stay the kid of 20 or whatever he was at the beginning of the story.
What man of any maturity would be put off Iris
because she was a grandmother? She was his chance to put aside his wasted years and develop into a mature and rounded man, and he rejected that chance. After that, he could only go downhill.