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Date Posted: 08:55:19 04/30/08 Wed
Author: Jonathan Dunn
Subject: Little Miss Sunshine

I think it is interesting that the character Frank in Little Miss Sunshine, engaged in a rather obvious mimetic rivalry, is a Proust scholar. Frank is depressed because he was not recognized as the foremost academic authority on Proust, which honor went to his rival. A fruit of this prize, apparently, is the love of Frank's previous gay lover who has now gone with the foremose Proust scholar. Frank sees the lover again when he is in a gas station buying heterosexual pornography. I think it is interesting that Girard began his work on mimetic rivalry, in part, while working on Proust.

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