Wednesday Addams is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. She is typically portrayed as a morbid and emotionally reserved child fascinated by the macabre, often identified by her pale skin and black pigtails – Wikipedia.
Several weeks ago, my granddaughter Robin, a passionate reader and fiercely independent, asked me why I thought that she reminded me of Wednesday, my favorite character in the Addams Family, in
Last year, everyone’s favorite sadistic big sister finally got her TV series. Netflix’s Wednesday is all about Wednesday Addams of the Addams Family. This version of Wednesday comes straight from the deliciously twisted mind of Tim Burton.
To me, Wednesday has always been the best character in the Adams Family series; she now has her show on Netflix, another smash.
Robin and I got to talking about Wednesday, and I told Robin I loved her intelligence, independence, and skepticism about the bullshit world in which adults live. She got it and agreed. I went online and bought her a Wednesday costume and a Wednesday doll.
(Robin and Sandy are reading James Thurber, another favorite of mine.)
She loved the gifts and told my daughter Emma that she wanted to send me a photo of her in a costume, holding the doll and with the TV Wednesday in the background. Robin is much more cheerful than the TV Wednesday but is fascinated with the dark side.
She produced and directed this photo; I love it and couldn’t wait to share it. As Robin gets older, she and I find many more things to talk about, and we are surprisingly often on the same page.
I have a dark side, too, and Wednesday is one of my favorite pop culture characters ever. James Thurber is another one of my favorites, as is Robin’s. More books are on the way.
Go, Robin. You are your mother’s daughter.
James Thurber! When was the last Tims anyone discussed him! So interesting, because this weekend I was telling a friend about how he loved dogs and also about his story about the ghost that got in the house and wreaked hilarious havoc. I read that story in childhood and have never met anyone who knew what I was talking about. I love his humor.
Robin makes a VERY convincing Wednesday Adams ! She is a top favorite of mine , I never realized she had such a following. Sometimes, if a conversation was mean or trivial, I used to enjoy delivering a line in her style completely deadpan and enjoyed the dumbfounded silence for half a moment before I turned and walked away. I always wanted to grow up and look like Morticia.
I love this, Jon. I don’t have a grandchild yet and I hope to, and when I do, I would love to share book love with them. It’s been the longest/greatest love of my life. Each book that I’ve read is a part of me. It’s the love that will never run out of material! I love Wednesday Addams, and wish I’d been confident like her as a little girl, to challenge the “adult” BS around me. I certainly raised my son to challenge the BS, and did he ever, and he still is!
Pls stop using “fierce” descriptors w females. It reveals your low expectations of them.
And is a boring cliche.
Gloria, please mind your own business. I like to write what I like and my expectations of anything are my judgements and my observations and opinions, not yours. Where did you get your manners? You might to want to find another blog, as I’m touchy about people telling me what words to do. Sort of an old fashioned America thing. Take care, but get lost.
So you’re saying you don’t want to communicate but just dictate.
Gloria, thanks for grasping the point of my blog, which is not to communicate with hostile strangers like you but to write a new kind of memoir in the digital world. I’m not looking to argue with people who have no idea who I am or what I am doing, nor is my blog about enabling you to write about yourself, it’s about my freedom to write about my life and what I am learning. If you have something thoughtful to say about my writing, you are welcome to do so. If you want a showcase for snotty and meaningless pc policing, you’re in the wrong place..your comment is ridiculous, all kinds of fierce women – my wife included – are making rich and meaningful history, women are no longer expected to be meek and deferential.
Your comment is offensive, to me and Maria both. I have no low expectations of her, and she is fierce in her love and creativity. That’s what successful artists have to be.
You have nothing of any thought to say about what I wrote, your simple minded and knee jerk comment is meaningless to me. So yes, I don’t wish to communicate if that’s what you call your message, I wish to write what I want on the blog I started, work for, and pay for. You have no idea what my blog is about and nothing of use to say about it.
If you feel silenced, go start your own blog, you can run your mouth off any time you want, like me. Try it.
Take care.
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“Fierce” women to me seem empowered and have my respect.
Me too, I married one…