Now is the winter of our discontent!

OH NO! RUN!

There is a reason why I titled this post with a quote from Shakespeare/The Simpsons.  I’m still coping with the loss of Green Bay’s fortunate son, Brett Farve.  There is a way I’ve come to grips with this staggering loss in the frozen tundra. 

I will put on my hipster English Major hat and compare Farve to Literature’s greatest lines from novels and plays!

Please to note: my elegant English Major hat!  

 

A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway (shotgun enthusiast )

“But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn’t any good. It was like saying good-bye to a statue. After awhile I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

One can make the comparison that Brett Farve is the protagonist Frederic Henry; a hard boozing sort who’s love interest Miss Barkley ( The Packers) dies. Frederic Henry has no choice but to leave them with nothing but his memories and a piece of him, that is gone forever.

Macbeth – Willam Shakespeare 

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee;

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw.    Macbeth, Act II, scene i

Clearly, Brett Farve is Macbeth.  This dagger that is appearing in front of him in the form of a hallucination, is retirement.  By clutching this imaginary dagger in his meaty palm, Farve is getting ready to stab this retirement into the soft belly of his adoring fans.  The searing pain will only worsen as Farve rips out his fans entrails and insanely feasts on them as his neo-vicodin.

 

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (Zelda lover)

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

Logically, one can deduce that in this passage we see reminiscing Farve.  A Farve who’s clearly learned his lessons and has decided that he may not want to be the one thing that’s always dogged him. Criticism.  More specifically, the media.  He does not to become what he’s always dreaded.   Some pompous ass who could never hack it who’s only able to mock and criticize those who were better.

Case in point:  Skip Bayless

To close, I hope you enjoyed this waltz down literature lane.  I know I’ve enjoyed going back and reviewing the stories and plays I should have read in high school.  If you have any other great works that would work for Brett Farve, please leave them in the comments.

ELVI!

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