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in reply to a message by Sabrina Fair
They're trying way too hard.
Dallas is trying too hard to be awesome and rough and cowboy/cowgirl-y. It screams, "look at me, I'm a tough as nails cowgirl! Whoo!"
Marlowe is trying too hard to be cultured and knowledgable. Like Holden, it suggests that the parents stayed awake enough in their English classes long enough to earn a C and to catch a few names, and now want to use those names to look like scholars. It's just as much of a neon light as Dallas is.
Understand, I'm not saying you are trying too hard or are failing English, or anything like that. I'm telling you the impressions these names would give me if I met a person named Dallas or Marlowe. The reality isn't that relevant, because it's the impressions of others that Marlowe and Dallas are going to have to deal with every day.
They're also really out of place on a girl, or for that matter on any human unless that person happens to have the surname of Marlowe.
Dallas is trying too hard to be awesome and rough and cowboy/cowgirl-y. It screams, "look at me, I'm a tough as nails cowgirl! Whoo!"
Marlowe is trying too hard to be cultured and knowledgable. Like Holden, it suggests that the parents stayed awake enough in their English classes long enough to earn a C and to catch a few names, and now want to use those names to look like scholars. It's just as much of a neon light as Dallas is.
Understand, I'm not saying you are trying too hard or are failing English, or anything like that. I'm telling you the impressions these names would give me if I met a person named Dallas or Marlowe. The reality isn't that relevant, because it's the impressions of others that Marlowe and Dallas are going to have to deal with every day.
They're also really out of place on a girl, or for that matter on any human unless that person happens to have the surname of Marlowe.
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