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If you say that someone is whistling in the dark, you mean that they are trying to remain brave and convince themselves that the situation is not as bad as it.
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New Releases. Categories: Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction. Whistling in the Dark. Description New York City, His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after a scandalous affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, Sutton heads to Manhattan with no plans and little money in his pocket but with a desire to call his life his own.
Jack Bailey lost his parents to influenza and now hopes to save the family novelty shop by advertising on the radio, a medium barely more than a novelty, itself. His nights are spent in a careless and debauched romp through the gayer sections of Manhattan.
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When these two men cross paths, despite a world of differences separating them, their attraction cannot be denied. Sutton finds himself drawn to the piano, playing for Jack. But can his music heal them both, or will sudden prosperity jeopardize their chance at love? Review quote "Tamara Allen's lively book Whistling in the Dark is a touching love story about two young men, just back from World War I, who find each other in New York City in the autumn of Anyway, what I think happened was the woman poisoned the narrators mind with wrong ideas which made him cry for help because you don't want wrong ideas.
Then since he had wrong ideas he had bad things which landed him in jail.
Then the man, who got in jail the same way, was making a spoof of the woman's saying. I mean, think about it, what the man said was silly compared to the woman. Anyway, then they laughed and he walked away because he hit his head and he was whistling in the dark. And has anyone noticed the connection between the message on the woman's scalp and the ppl that want to write a message on Mr. Horrible's forehead with a green magic marker?
I was just listening to this song, where i've been pondering over it's inner meaning for a few days now, and it struck me that the song could quite possibly be about peer pressure, especially negative peer pressure. I took it from the perspective of an unpopular kind've fellow, and he want's to fit in with the popular crowd. The chorus "There's only one thing that I know how to do well And I've often been told that you only can do What you know how to do well And that's be you, Be what you're like, Be like yourself" is the person contemplating what the women tells him and how he tells himself that he should just be himself and not act like someone they want him to be.
FIrst off, Whistling in the dark is the name of a movie. So I think this song may have a different meaning all together. Perhaps it is more about life in general and people who despite being presented with an obviously hazardous situation still prefer to be confident that something good will happen despite the fact that it won't. I interpret "the dark" to mean ignorance as R3D suggested, and "Whistling in the dark" as "blissfully ignorant" as many suggested.
This works well with the rest of the song content. I differ once we try to draw in zealotry or religious conversion. The woman is bring idea which she herself describes as "wrong. He winds up in jail, maybe from following said wrong ideas. As for the movie of the same title, I think they had the same meaning in mind for the isolated phrase.
The Aristophanes quote is very cool, but the usage doesn't match well. The 1st Verse is about Ayn Rand. I think its about someone retreating into a fantasy world in their head when they have to do something tehy dont want to, such as going into a dark room when they are afraid of the dark, so to overcome this fear they whistle and retreat into their head.
Just a thought though. I've always found it interesting that the man starts to panic and cry for help when someone offers to change his mind with "Appealing, wrong ideas" but takes it as a joke when someone threatens to change his mind by hitting it with a rock. The narrator wants to learn how to be a musician.
Sadly, over his lifetime he has been told the only thing he is allowed to do in life is be himself, not being able to further his knowledge of music. So he is having a wonderful time, but he would rather whistle or create music in the most simple way in the dark. This is an extremely long interpretation, I know, but for a song as cryptically complex as this one, I think it's necessary. While it may strike you as contrived when you glance at its length, reading it should reveal very few big logical leaps. It's just that I'm a very, very verbose person, and I want to include all the details of how I arrived at the interpretation.
First, we must remember that it is the narrator saying what the woman and the man said. It's not coming straight from the mouths of the man and the woman, it's the narrator relating to you what he believes they said to him, and he may not be a totally reliable narrator. In fact, this interpretation of the lyrics which I am about to relate holds him to be unreliable, as he is "blissfully ignorant" as has been put forward by others.
Merriam-Webster defines "whistle in the dark" as "to keep up one's courage by or as if by whistling", and Dictionary. I see no references to the cunnilingus meaning anywhere, and A Dirty Shame was released fourteen years after Flood anyway. I agree with the statement about assuming they know what they're putting in the songs intentions really don't matter if it's not conveyed through the work of art , but assuming they're putting meanings into the lyrics that not only don't actually derive in any way from the lyrics without serious bending and twisting of the language, but also were completely unprecedented at the time they were written, is a different matter.
So I'll go with the generally accepted one to make a show of bravery in a difficult situation. However, it is also worth remembering that TMBG loves puns, so it's important to analyze things from different angles simultaneously. I do remember reading somewhere although I'm not sure where and a search of the Internet revealed nothing. I remember seeing something like that once and vaguely remember a question about Whistling In The Dark, but I can never find it on the site. Another word that needs to be defined is "wonderful". Merriam-Webster lists two definitions.
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Many people primarily use the second definition, "unusually good". However, its primary definition, and that which is evident if you look at the word in parts, is "exciting wonder", "-ful" being a suffix that denotes that the object of the adjective is full of whatever precedes the suffix, in this case "wonder". This is easy to misinterpret here, because usually when someone says "a wonderful time" they refer to an "unusually good time". However, we know that TMBG enjoys their clever wordplay, so this is nevertheless plausible. There's one more word that needs definition: "appeal".
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We'll disregard the definitions regarding legal proceedings, since they aren't grammatically relevant here. It's easy to assume that he refers to the Merriam-Webster definition "to arouse a sympathetic response", however, this is only a popularized subset of the primary definition, "to make an earnest request". While "to arouse a sympathetic response" would fit with the quote if the woman was actually saying it herself, we must remember that it is the narrator saying it, and the rest of the verse and the chorus reveal his unreliability.
Only "to make an earnest request" fits into the song as a whole. This first verse details an encounter with a woman, who appeals to him to change his ideas, claiming that it would be in his benefit "I am not unkind". However, the ideas she is trying to get him to accept conflict with his own, so he sees her as trying to "poison his mind" the listener remembering that it's the narrator's recollection. I'll return to the first verse after a detour to the chorus, which establishes a few things: 1.
The narrator is quite comfortable his own outlook. He only knows how to be himself. This outlook has been reinforced by those around him. He does not wish to know about other outlooks. There's only one thing that he likes, and that is "whistling in the dark", or being happy in his ignorance.
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Back in the first verse, we know that the woman is trying to change his outlook, and we know that the narrator absolutely does not want to change his outlook. What he specifically does here is not clear from the lyrics. However, we know it results in his outlook being on her scalp, in a sense the chorus is, after all, the words that it faintly said on her scalp, as should be clear enough from the lyrics. We can infer from this that he has, as most stubborn, ignorant ideologues like him tend to, become very angry. Since he now has to call for help, we can also infer that he probably struck her head with some object a fist, a bullet, it's not clear and caused some serious injury.
Now that this is occurred, we are informed via the chorus that he is "having a wonderful time", which, as was established previously, means "having a time full of wonder". He's thinking about what she's said, and perhaps is also trying to figure out what to do now.
However, he'd "rather be whistling in the dark".
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This has two meanings, of course: He would rather have remained ignorant, and he'd rather defend his outlook bravely so, in his mind than consider changing it. So here we have our narrator, standing next to an unconscious woman with evident trauma to the head.