| re: Dear Mr. Roper | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:41 pm EDT 10/02/21 | |
| In reply to: Dear Mr. Roper - stevemr 04:28 pm EDT 10/02/21 | |
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| "Evan didn't write that letter to a friend. He wrote it to himself." I believe you have missed the point, which is that Connor's mother -- and, eventually, lots of other people -- BELIEVE that Connor wrote the letter to Evan. Which means no one finds it odd that someone like Connor would use the "Dear" salutation in addressing Evan, not do they find it incredibly strange that Connor would use Evan's full name in writing a letter to him. Seriously, how often have you received a personal note from a friend with a salutation that contained your full first and last names? This is something that simply never happens. Which is why, from the beginning, I've said that the only major problem I have with DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the title -- but I've never heard of anyone else sharing that opinion until someone posted this about Richard Roper. P.S. All of the above on top of the fact that nowadays, as far as I know, when teenagers write to one another, they almost always do so via texts or maybe emails. And the percentage of times when they instead do so by composing a letter with a word processing program, then printing it out to hand to the recipient, is likely very close to zero. So this, to me, is yet another problem with the central plot point of DEAR EVAN HANSEN. |
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