Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/9/03: The adult who will not see, contemptuous of the younger adult's ability to gauge reality reasonably.

Werner Drewes, "Fish Monster" 1944 — Werner Drewes, *Fish Monster* (1944)

July 9, 2003:

The adult who will not see, contemptuous of the younger adult's ability to gauge reality reasonably. Much of the genre's tension revolves around this patronizing blindness, exploiting childhood fears that a real danger will arise, and the protectors will not protect.