a small little thought about bunny corcoran because i'm thinking about him right now. i know there's a handful of bunny lovers on this app (myself included), but i find it devastating that, in a way, every interpretation of his character is only that—an interpretation. we will never know who bunny really was because he himself doesn't even know.
there's a line in the book that's really stuck with me, where richard states how the less you know bunny, the more you feel like you do. and that perfectly explains the kind of person bunny is. he doesn't have a defined identity, and so much of him is repressed. he has lived his life the way he thinks he should, not the way he wants. he was never given the choice to pick what he wanted.
that's why he's attached so much of his identity to henry. down to wearing the same glasses he does and changing his major. he wants to be Someone so badly, even if that someone isn't him.
i need the secret history set in england. instead of bunny saying “hello, old sport”, it’d just be him going “wagwan bruv”
The Secret History set in the modern day and everything is the same except Francis has no less than four strawberry ice vapes on his person at all times
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*again, excuse the annotations; I read this a while ago please bear with me O-O<3
the thing I love the most about The Secret History is that like... so many readers fell for Richard's bullshit. Like anyone who legitimately thinks Henry is cool - no! That man didn't know about the moon landing and thought they could get away with a murder by fleeing to Argentina! He's stupid! But Richard loved him, so he wanted us all to love him too. And it worked!
no 80s rockstar boyfriend shaped present under my tree, will update next year
I love bunny haunting them at the funeral with the rain and the wasp and destroying camilla’s favourite umbrella
Henry Winter's time of the month (he has a headache 😞)
The Greek Class didn't destroy Richard, he brought that on himself.
He chose to be destroyed and I am sure a part of him wanted to be.
He's the type of person who wants to be different, to be admired, to be apart from normal people.
That's why he tried to get in the Greek class in the first place even when Julian rejected him ounce, he wanted to be with the elites, to be exclusive.
Richard does show remorse for his actions at times but that doesn't mean he didn't find it thrilling.
He wanted an adventure, to see a tragedy, to be part of something dramatic and exciting. He was bored in his little town, around distant parents and normal friends.
He has always felt like he was above other people and he does look down on others who don't understand or follow his ideals.
His idolization of the Greek class is the reason he got destroyed, he was blinded by the opportunity to be included and accepted by them that he didn't look back at the mistakes he made for them.
Richard's story is a cautionary tale about foregoing your sanity and ethics for a broken, one sided friendship. They used him again and again, he did everything for them. Never questioning what he was really doing.
In the end, he was never a part of their group.
He was just there.
henry writing in his journal in rome