Thread: New Leaf July 2019 Discussion • The Natural by Bernard Malamud
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Old 07-16-2019, 06:37 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Regarding names--is Hobbs a nod to Thomas Hobbes, who characterized life in the natural state as "nasty, brutish, and short"?
I had the same thought abut "Hobbs." Roy is, as Bookpossum said, a marker of his potential, while Hobbs described his origins, his reality. Ultimately his last name trumped his aspirational first name.
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