[LM_NET] Gen: Character of Gertrude McFuzz

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

Hello,

            Does anyone know if the character of Gertrude McFuzz by Dr.
Seuss was inspired by any particular person or incident?  Gertrude is
the character from Yertle the Turtle who starts off by trying to have a
long ostentatious feather, but ends up being a humanitarian activist (of
sorts).  

 

Ed Nizalowski, SMS

Newark Valley High School

Newark Valley, NY

enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

"Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman . . . et al) spent too much of
their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been
trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers.  The
indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial."

Edward Abbey

 


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