I would most certainly say so, Joe. Adele's fascination with Nietzsche is explicit (see the scene of Sunday Dinner with the "P Street Illuminati," where Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return is discussed). And the ending of the novel shows her to be a Nietzschean in the "hard" sense I write about in this post. Thanks for your observations!
I wish I had been told that instead of deciding what you want to be you should humbly pray and seek what God wants you to be. Replacing my ambitions with God's ambitions would have saved me a lot of harm.
Thanks for the article, Dr. McInerny! Combining this article with your reference to “The Good Death of Kate Montclair”, would you say Adele is a portrayal of Nietzchean philosophy? Her approach to death, in the sense of willing it to happen on one’s terms, makes me think such to be the case.
I would most certainly say so, Joe. Adele's fascination with Nietzsche is explicit (see the scene of Sunday Dinner with the "P Street Illuminati," where Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return is discussed). And the ending of the novel shows her to be a Nietzschean in the "hard" sense I write about in this post. Thanks for your observations!
I wish I had been told that instead of deciding what you want to be you should humbly pray and seek what God wants you to be. Replacing my ambitions with God's ambitions would have saved me a lot of harm.
Thanks for the article, Dr. McInerny! Combining this article with your reference to “The Good Death of Kate Montclair”, would you say Adele is a portrayal of Nietzchean philosophy? Her approach to death, in the sense of willing it to happen on one’s terms, makes me think such to be the case.