Tender Prey David Hollander Analysis
derJeffrey Calero
Tender Love
As we find atrocities within our society that is compelled by free market cronies, the stand for independence for the better good has come to be distorted. How can this be exemplified? David Hollander gives us a story of a young man who confines himself of images sough out by these exact societies that instill ideologies of prejudice, identity, love and fear. Through his conveying “Tender Prey” he unfolds these very feelings and emotion mixed with ideas and views. As I see the twenty-seven year old surround himself with distraught feelings of a close ended love he sees the world in a retched out view, belittling his journey through graduate school as he works on his, as he would quote, “mostly unsuccessful”, first draft novel. With love being mostly an illusion sought out on another as depicted in Adrian House’s, “Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life”, I notice that love can really blind a person to the point of vulnerability which then is ravished by these very, neoliberal mandated, societies. About love, House writes, “We are often first drawn to each other by the physical and mental attraction of looks, desire, wealth, …show more content…
And with such prejudice, nested by economical and sociological differenced, sough out by ruling powers, he describes his habitat as less than suitable in a rough neighborhood. Cautiously walking out he is approached by someone who he sees as the grim ripper, only to find being greeted by a question of care as the night in 2AM blows harsh cold winds. I cannot help but state that this is exactly the division and prejudice that is commandeered by neoliberal societies, found throughout the world, especially in times of vulnerability, creating a compounding effects that feds a narcissistic ego within a rising competitive
Tender Love
As we find atrocities within our society that is compelled by free market cronies, the stand for independence for the better good has come to be distorted. How can this be exemplified? David Hollander gives us a story of a young man who confines himself of images sough out by these exact societies that instill ideologies of prejudice, identity, love and fear. Through his conveying “Tender Prey” he unfolds these very feelings and emotion mixed with ideas and views. As I see the twenty-seven year old surround himself with distraught feelings of a close ended love he sees the world in a retched out view, belittling his journey through graduate school as he works on his, as he would quote, “mostly unsuccessful”, first draft novel. With love being mostly an illusion sought out on another as depicted in Adrian House’s, “Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life”, I notice that love can really blind a person to the point of vulnerability which then is ravished by these very, neoliberal mandated, societies. About love, House writes, “We are often first drawn to each other by the physical and mental attraction of looks, desire, wealth, …show more content…
And with such prejudice, nested by economical and sociological differenced, sough out by ruling powers, he describes his habitat as less than suitable in a rough neighborhood. Cautiously walking out he is approached by someone who he sees as the grim ripper, only to find being greeted by a question of care as the night in 2AM blows harsh cold winds. I cannot help but state that this is exactly the division and prejudice that is commandeered by neoliberal societies, found throughout the world, especially in times of vulnerability, creating a compounding effects that feds a narcissistic ego within a rising competitive