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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: LegitOnce 01:19 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - WaymanWong 01:03 am EST 12/07/13

Well, if you're looking for a rationale, the Wikipedia entry on Maria Rainer quotes her as saying she had a bad temper, so much so that she spent her wedding day angry at the Captain and God Himself for getting her into this situation when her real desire in life was to be a nun.

And, by the very high standards of a religious, Maria does have her flaws: she's disobedient and headstrong. She's been at the Trapp house barely five minutes before starting an argument with her employer. It's not unreasonable to think that these traits were part of Maria's personality as a child, and she's remembering, say, getting in fights with other children, disobeying at school, that sort of thing. Again, by the standards a nun holds herself to, these things might seem "wicked."


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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: andrea 10:05 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - LegitOnce 01:19 am EST 12/07/13

Wikipedia also says that she was an orphan by the age 7, which may have something to do with her "wicked childhood" and headstrong traits.


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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: TheOtherOne 10:28 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - andrea 10:05 am EST 12/07/13

You think she killed her parents? ;-)


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The Sound of Music: Ruthless! nmi

Posted by: Ann 06:00 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - TheOtherOne 10:28 am EST 12/07/13




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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: LegitOnce 10:44 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - TheOtherOne 10:28 am EST 12/07/13

Well, there was that one time she didn't win the penmanship medal...


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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: mikem 09:21 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - LegitOnce 01:19 am EST 12/07/13

With Catholic guilt and all, Maria probably thinks she was wicked at the convent, too. She knows that she is often late (and therefore disobedient) and that some of the other nuns don't think much of her.

I find it interesting that the lyric is, "I had a miserable youth" (things happened to me that were terrible) as opposed to "I was a miserable youth" (I was a bad kid). I find it easy to imagine that Maria had a miserable youth. As far as we know, she has no family at all (no one walks her down the aisle), she seems like someone who could get picked on a lot by authority figures (like the nuns at the abbey do), and she may have entered the convent because the church took her out of miserable surroundings.


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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by: Chromolume 08:59 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - mikem 09:21 am EST 12/07/13

I find it interesting that the lyric is, "I had a miserable youth" (things happened to me that were terrible) as opposed to "I was a miserable youth" (I was a bad kid).

"kid" would likely describe her "childhood" rather than her "youth," yes? ;-)


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That is interesting ....

Posted by: jdm 08:45 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - LegitOnce 01:19 am EST 12/07/13

about the Wikipedia entry. I recall reading somewhere that Maria before entering the convent was practically an atheist, she really was drawn to the glorious music that she heard in churches. So getting angry at God seems to be at odds with other reports.

Jim


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