FOX/GRAPES
Richard Gibson for THE FOX
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A decent sort. Somewhat frustrated about having to constantly jump for, and miss, grapes on a vine, but rational about it. He's a middle-aged philosopher/professor type of a character. Respectful; does what’s expected of him.
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- english
- male adult
The Fox is miffed when a teenage girl, who is watching him jump up at a grapevine (and miss), questions whether foxes eat grapes: FOX: Of course, we do. We’re omnivores. We eat everything. Animals, plants, insects, fruit, including grapes. You name it, we eat it. … And if we’re hungry enough, nosy little girls.
The Fox then asks what the Girl is doing in his fable: FOX: There’s no little girl. Just me, the grapes and my borderline psychotic obsession to grab them. (confidentially) I’m thirsty, and there’s a lovely little stream running just behind those bushes. … But I’m fixated on these grapes. … That Aesop [ee-saap] was a strange dude.
The Fox is philosophical, maybe even a bit defensive, when the Girl remarks that it would be tragic if he didn’t get the grapes. FOX: But that would mess up the moral of the story. At the very least, it’d be revisionist. Twenty-five hundred years of oral and written tradition down the drain. Besides, what would we be teaching kids? Give up and be bitter if something’s hard to get?
