Dec 28, 2009

The Lame Shall Enter First | Character Analysis

With his “very large round ears that leaned away from his head and seemed to pull his eyes slightly too far apart,” Norton can do little to please his father. Overweight, clumsy, and not particularly bright in his father’s eyes, Norton is “lame,” representing all children who do not receive unconditional love from their parents. Rather than being selfish and dull as his father concludes, however, Norton longs for his mother’s love, for her death has created a hole in his life that he cannot fill, because his father is more involved with a misguided sense of...