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Who is Fielding?

posted 17 years ago by ssm117
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There is a scene, where Sarah and Fielding are discussing his ambitions. So Sarah asks him, what it means that his father called Ed and his mother called Mary (ore some other rather common names) gave him the name "Fielding", and Fieldings answer was that it means that he was meant to succeed (ore something similair). So "Fielding" has to be a person his parents referred to by calling their son Fielding. Right? And who was this "Fielding" that served as an ideal? Can anybody help me here?

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[–] georgette-evans 17 years ago

I thought that Sarah was making the point, and Fielding was agreeing, that his parents had common names to match the fact that they were working class people. They named him an upper class name in the hope that he would rise above the working class of his parents. They named him Fielding, an upper class name, because they wanted his professional success to match his name. I didn't think that there was a apecific 'Fielding' character being referenced. I'm not certain, of course, but that's my thought.

[–] solesister 17 years ago

I pretty much got what you did out of it, georgette. The parents pinned all their ambitions on Fielding, even as they gave his siblings plain ordinary Catholic working-class names: Danny and Caroline.

[–] HamerPrototype 17 years ago

My opinion exactly !!