Ivy of the novel - why did the author sexualize her?
Susan Swift doesn't look anything like Ivy of the novel. Susan looked like the girl next door. Is that why they offered her the role?
shareYes I suppose. Most 10 year olds are cute, not strikingly beautiful. She also had a sensual mouth in the novel, didn't she? I find that creepy for a child of her age.
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So far in the 2 books I read by author Frank DeFelitta, he has a tendency to victimize and sexualize the female protagonists, like in The Entity and Audrey Rose, which in this case the protagonist is a mere child!
shareI wonder why he wanted to sexualize a ten-year-old. Weird.
shareI think he kind of sexualized her at the beginning, because he was trying to set it up to make you the reader think that Hoover was going to be a pedophile at first, of course that wasn't the case. You notice that she wasn't sexualized later on in the book, only in the beginning.
You may not like him, Minister, but you can't deny, Dumbledore's got style.
But HalfbloodPrincess, it wouldn't make any difference if Ivy had been described as petite and undeveloped. The reader could still think Hoover was a pedophile. Besides, aren't pedophiles sexually attracted to children? Ivy looked like a fifteen-year-old with huge breasts!
shareThe cover illustration on the novel depicted a girl with no breasts, but with long, golden hair and incredibly long legs. That enough is a pedophile's wet-dream.
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