Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Tucker, a local dentist who has played a clergyman in The Lost Colony for the past six years, made it through a scene in which he lies supine and ill and then took it upon himself to explain his devotion to the production...
...revelation that Barclay experiences drives him to take the initiative against Tucker. He had already decided that he would no longer flee from Tucker; instead, "Rick should become my prey." But when a friend recommends that Barclay overcome his "universal indifference" by cultivating his affections, even starting with a dog, Barclay adapts the suggestion by trying to reduce Tucker to the condition of a dog. Tantalizing Tucker with the prospect of being Barclay's literary executor, Barclay forces Tucker at one point to lap wine from a saucer...
Barclay brings to his task of destroying Tucker the moral confidence of a damned soul and the physical recklessness of an arrogant intellectual. Barclay knows that...
Extending and then witholding the gratification of Tucker's desires, Barclay does his level best to break Tucker...
Tension between a spiritual core and a realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how I must seem to you, sir Just another sincere but limited academic." Then, as relations between the two men deteriorate further, Tucker is reduced to a caricature again. Golding's spiritual concern over Tucker as a human being wars with the literary problem of how to depict him. This tension...