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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Dr. Barry Pinkly

What do you all think the true motives are for Dr. Barry Pinkly's relationship with Edgar?
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9 comments:

doug h said...
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April 15, 2008 at 7:30 PM
doug h said...

When I first read about Dr. Pinkly I thought he was just an obsessive pervert. But the more i read about him, the more I realize that he means well and just wants to prevent Edgar from having a childhood of his own.

April 15, 2008 at 8:03 PM
bkorrapati25 said...

I can't decide if he is a good man with good intentions or a child molester.

April 15, 2008 at 8:10 PM
alex hump said...

agreed, bobby. i keep going back and forth on this one. im trying to put aside the fact that he's a drug dealer and consider the possibility that he actually cares about edgar, but im not convinced

April 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Jessica Deckard said...

"he means well and just wants to prevent Edgar from having a childhood of his own." What does that mean, Doug?

April 16, 2008 at 9:42 AM
seelige said...

i don't think he cares about edgar as a person. i think he is a bad influence for him because he is a drug dealer and he's selfish. he doesnt care about edgar's feelings.

April 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM
sophie said...

while i do think that barry does feel a connection with edgar and does want to help him because they both have had similar childhoods, and barry does not want edgar to feel alone like barry so clearly did as a child, i think that barry's main motive is for selfish reasons, to only better himself. i think that he wants to see edgar succeed in life to show that his "miracle" that he made is happy in life. edgar is barry's only success and only proof that he was a savior.

April 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Taylor Harkness said...

I think he had good apropriate intentions for Edgar in probably the first 30 pages of the book but his character in my mine has continually deteriorated from there. I think the dude needs a life and to be worrying about someone his own age or maybe himself. I'd rather just not see or hear about him for the rest of the book unless he's dead.

April 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Jack Truett said...

Yea the guy has some weird obsession over Edgar now. Its almost like he is a pedefile. I'm nervous for Edgar to see what is going to happen in the rest of the book

April 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM

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