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Harvey
by Mary Chase, Mary Chase

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Author: Mary Chase
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1951-10-01
ISBN: 0822205009
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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Book Review: A strange white rabbit between us
Summary: 5 Stars

Ok: I had already seen the film by Henry Koster, and then I have red the play of Mary Chase; but I was really determinate to read this book, I've tried it 15 years, and only by Amazon I've found it. It was a good idea: the film is very good and it respects surely the text, but here we have the original form of a wonderful idea: Elwood P. Dowd is a man, sure not stupid, which doesn't like the normal life - even if he is rich and lucky ...or just because this? - and decides to go out from the official and serious society with a friend, a really special friend : a giant white rabbit, Harvey, which only Elwood can see! They have a exclusive world, without work, without love, without every problems. They live drinking all the day. Obviously , somebody does't like this situation: his sister Veta Louise, who lives in the Elwood's house with her daughter Myrtle Mae, an incredible old girl always hunting men. A day Veta wants to send Elwood in a psychiatric hospital, but...really we cannot understand who is crazy! After, the dr. Chumley prefer not to change Elwood and to "kill" Harvey: at contrary, he becomes their friend.

This play is wonderful and very clever; even if we can be happy reading, we understand that our life is really closed in many ways, even if we don't want to be drunk to forget our responsibilities we ask ourselves : is this the life we would like? The picture of the good society is very agreeable and true: a good woman cannot be good with her brother, a good daughter feels a violent man, a good doctor wants make a trip with an invisible rabbit, a good judge cannot see the reality... Only simple people are really kind, when meet Elwood and he and Harvey are near them: the great Herman Schimmelplusser (an old man which all call only Herman, only Elwood speaks him with respectful), or the taxi driver Lofgren (which remember the poetic, gentle soul of the crazy he carried at hospital), or Mr. Minninger, an old drunk a day in jail a day out.. These are the Elwood's best friends, he invites these people at dinner, producing big shame of Veta. At last we would like know something about the Elwood's past life, what made change him. We cannot, but it maybe we can: just seeing in ourselves. Mary Chase won the Pulitzer Prize with "Harvey".

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