Curtain Challenge

[akite.livejournal.com]

Here's my interpretation.

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Behind the Curtain

We all live behind curtains. I see that now. Fraser, I can actually see when the curtain is drawn. He becomes like, oblivious, super polite Mountie. Frannie comes up and starts giving him her come on, and the curtain comes down. Or somebody gets too close, gets too personal. There comes the curtain.

Frannie has her own curtain. The woman is smart and pretty, but get her around Fraser and down comes the bimbo curtain. Welsh, he looks out at the world from behind his 'I'm a crabby old fart' curtain. Huey's got his, I'm sure. Dewey if he does, it's probably an 'I'm an asshole' curtain, he can't be a jerk all the way through, can he?

I live behind one too. As I once told Fraser: Inside, I'm a poet. Outside, I'm - umph! Shake, bad guy, shake. That's me. That's what I'm about. I'm all tough on the outside, but inside - I don't let most people see inside.

I'm glad I'm the one that Fraser trusts to see inside his curtain. I'm glad he can see behind mine.

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Great observations. Ray's not a detective for nothing. I particularly like Frannie's "bimbo curtain." She IS street smart -- she reveals that often enough -- but that sex-on-a-stick persona keeps coming down to hide it.

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

I like Frannie's bimbo curtain observation, too. It made me think of 'Dead Guy Running' when she says something about being able to debone a whole chicken in under three minutes...she's not as dumb as she plays herself to be. I almost get the feeling that someone in her life told her she had to be dumb to get a guy and so she let herself be dumb. Someone told *me* that once. I didn't listen, but....

[akite.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Shay, Jenny. It's funny because I went back and added that middle paragraph just this morning. I think someone did tell Frannie you have to act dumb to catch a man. Shame on them!

[akite.livejournal.com]

Exactly, MR. She get so frustrated in some of the episodes because Fraser doesn't respond the way she expects him to. That deer in the headlights look at the end of The Deal (is that right?). Precisely the wrong way to come at Fraser, IMO.

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

/me agrees with above comments.

Ray is an excellent people-reader; I'm glad you highlighted that :)

[akite.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Thermidor.