But Lovecraft’s worries definitely fail the Bechdel/Wallace test. Yet he was horribly racist, and I can’t say he was a mysoginist only because female characters never really appear. The creator of countless tropes and archetypes that are used in narrative fiction to this day. Clearly the founding father of modern Science fiction and of modern horror. So if you can see the bad guys as unique to this fantasy world and not characatures of certain real groups, and if you take it on the surface as a boy’s coming of age fantasy tale and if you can avoid thinking of the subtext, it’s fun. And many of them are not favorably represented. the subtext is pretty racist and the various people’s of this fantasy world are very clearly stereotypes of various real world cultures. A lot of whore/Madonna dichotomy too.Īlso. Also the females seem to be considered to be temperamental and a burden for the male characters to endure. The story makes the females characters seem wise on the surface, but the more you unpack it, the more they seem to be subservient to the male characters. Probably not as enjoyable for a female reader. Well it’s a very enjoyable romp but it’s been many years since I first read it and some parts don’t hold up as well.
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