Well, what I'd heard was that Tommy was an idealized version of her first husband, so... I think Tuppence is considered to be a self-insert on her own merits, though. She does share Christie's experiences as a VAD nurse.
Another thing I noticed, early in BtPoMT-- when Tuppence is finally able to pin down her memory of the railway journey where she saw the house, all the details come rushing back, including the print of cornflowers on the dress she was wearing at the time. In a couple of other Christie novels, characters talking about the vividness of some early childhood memories will often use the example of being still able to picture the wallpaper from their nursery, and usually they describe it as alternating bunches of poppies and cornflowers. This is based on Christie’s own childhood nursery, according to her memoirs. Reading the line about the dress, I wondered if for her cornflowers consequently had a symbolic association with visual memory in general.
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Date: 2020-08-07 12:38 pm (UTC)I think Tuppence is considered to be a self-insert on her own merits, though. She does share Christie's experiences as a VAD nurse.
Another thing I noticed, early in BtPoMT-- when Tuppence is finally able to pin down her memory of the railway journey where she saw the house, all the details come rushing back, including the print of cornflowers on the dress she was wearing at the time. In a couple of other Christie novels, characters talking about the vividness of some early childhood memories will often use the example of being still able to picture the wallpaper from their nursery, and usually they describe it as alternating bunches of poppies and cornflowers. This is based on Christie’s own childhood nursery, according to her memoirs. Reading the line about the dress, I wondered if for her cornflowers consequently had a symbolic association with visual memory in general.