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• W1520682505 abstract "For the greater part of the 226 pages of Lee Smith's Black Mountain Breakdown, Crystal Spangler unable--whether because of incapacity or stubborn, self-preserving unwillingness--to recall her rape at the hands of her mentally retarded Uncle Devere, which occurs toward the end of Section I (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980, 64). Years later, on tour of the Lenore Gardner Hospital, psychiatric facility, Crystal encounters a young man, hunched in the corner of his crib who reaches hand toward her. it his face which holds her.... His face moonface, white and smooth, moonface like Devere's (215). Her sighting of this face triggers the memory of the rape which occurred so many years before, and this reliving of the memory eventually leads to Crystal's decision to paralyze herself. just stops moving. She stops talking, stops doing (223). Both Anne Goodwyn Jones and Lucinda H. MacKethan have pointed out Crystal's obvious passivity and how it leads much inevitability to Crystal's final paralysis. The narrator, too, passes along Crystal's childhood friend Agnes' observation of an inherent weakness in Crystal. can take care of herself, but she not sure that Crystal can. Crystal seems to lack something, some hard thing that Agnes and Babe were born with (8). However, in contrast to Agnes' supposition of their differences from one another, Crystal eventually develops the necessary hardness to survive this rape and number of subsequent hardships. In fact, Crystal's passivity paradoxically becomes an active force, determined and purposeful surrender that saves her from accepting her role as helpless victim. On the day following her rape, the young teenage Crystal returns to her parents' home to find her recluse father dead on the front room sofa. Repressing the memory of the rape and learning to adjust to the loss of her father help her, for time, to avoid facing her victimization. She soon takes steps away from what Jones calls her mother Lorene's plans to make her into everything she couldn't be, which everything that American culture in the 1950s wanted of its `girls' (129). Although she continues to act out part of Lorene's dream by competing in beauty contests, she returns the football hero Roger Lee Combs's school and friendship rings and begins life of sexual experimentation. Her rejecton of Roger, who perceived by her peers and her mother as the perfect mate because his handsomeness seems the perfect complement to Crystal's beauty, seems initially to be forceful rejection of society's expectations. However, it actually serves as means of surrendering herself to other, stronger forces, Because it's only when she's boys that she feels pretty, or popular, or fun. In the way they talk to her and act around her, Crystal can see what they think of her, and then that's the way she is (133). To her mother and many of her classmates, Crystal good girl; to these boys, she becomes whoever they think and want her to be. This passive acquiescence to the desires of others becomes for Crystal means of making do, of getting by, of surviving. Only the rebellious, lower class Mack Stiltner able to see through Crystal, to see her cool hardness for the protective mechanism it is. In his song written about her, he sings Angel hair, she don't care, my darling angel and angel hair sharp as glass/You never can get close (96). In the argument that follows his private performance of this song, Mack warns her that she can't have it every way you want it, honey. You got to pick sometime (97). His words are challenge to Crystal to own for once her passion and desires instead of drifting in the sea of dreams and proddings of others. But Crystal feels safest in the roles created by others; that is, until she feels part of, involved in that role. As long as she can see herself from without, going through the motions like somnambulist, she's perfectly safe and secure; once she warms to the feelings, she compelled to leave that unsafe situation. …" @default.
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