L.A. Confidential
Commonly, when we make value judgements about people we speak as if there were a single norm towards which everyone ought to be growing. They\\\'re supposed to succeed in becoming perfect specimens. You can tell whether they do by seeing how well they perform according to a checklist of desired features. We also speak as if people have an outside and an inside, and that on the inside, they\\\'re really either good or bad.
It\\\'s hard to analyze Ellroy\\\'s characters in these terms. For Bud White we\\\'d have to say that he was warped by his early trauma. What his father did to him made him a brute, yet he still has enough inner decency to try to prevent women from being abused. Or—Wait a minute!—is it the opposite? Maybe, he\\\'s a brute by nature and it\\\'s only thanks to the terrible thing that happened to his mother that he has some morality. Neither of these explanations seems to satisfy, because the framework on which they are constructed is inadequate. Bud doesn\\\'t......
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