Talk:The Music of Chance

Interpretation
I added the original research tag - personally, I like the analysis given, but there are no citations, which points to originality. 90.242.7.48 21:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * mmmh. My input for the interpretative discussion: IMHO Nashe represents civilisation (as a fireman he keeps up the public order). Pozzi represents the natural order. Change. Coincidence. He's a gambler. Nashe is the "reasonable man" while Pozzi is wild and uncontrolled. When Pozzi has to leaves the meadow for the hospital, Nashe discovers these feelings also inside himself but he is able to control them until the end. In the car these feelings break free. The first episode in the car is Nashe's controlled freedom. The car and the highway is the ultimate America symbol for freedom - you can go whereever you like. But this freedom is dependent on money. With every mile his freedom seems to shrink. Nashe realizes this and tries to put an end to it, when he meets Pozzi. That is one element. Then IMHO there's the picture of slavery and freedom. In the poker game that turns out to be a godgame Nashe and Pozzi lose their freedom and they are forced to work their debt off. In this case Flower and Stone are something like God or whatever drives the universe. Nashe is always keen on being recognized by them. He wants to hear that their work on the wall is good. But Calvin Murks ("Calvin" the protestant) representing society, capitalism, the clergy and whatever controls man on earth, only tells him that they have seen it and that they thought it's good or that they don't have time aso. So when Pozzi rebels against this order he brings a gun to uphold it. And Nashe (the man of order) more than before supports Murk by policing Pozzi. First they work like slaves: The godly order gives their labour to Murks. They work all day and don't have to pay for anything. (In the movie on the day of their "liberation" Nashe even sings a spiritual.) But now they aren't free again, because they have to pay for their living. Their employer only pays what's needed for the work. Pozzi tries to break out of this new order and gets punished. Nashe still isn't able to directly connect the outside world to see what happened to Pozzi "on the other side".  --Kaffeeringe.de 21:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Read the book and re-write or let someone who knows what they are doing write it
This article is poorly written and should not be used by anyone wishing to find information about the book. Several key parts of the book are left out and the interpretation is not backed up by a source. Cite something somewhere please. I wish there was more to say about the article, but there isn't enough of the article to say anything about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.196.191.95 (talk) 06:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)