Donna Tartt (post 6): Author says “Jekyll-Hyde” and “Peter Pan”—two multiple personality stories—make their way into all her books

“At thirteen, she read Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which, she says, has made its way into all of her books, as has Peter Pan. ‘There’s something of Peter Pan in every single thing I’ve written. It’s there in everything, very, very deeply. Peter Pan was the first book I loved that I read to myself. It was a drug, an altered state of consciousness. You weren’t at your school. You were really somewhere else.’ ” https://bookstr.com/list/i-heart-donna-tartt-10-facts-about-mysterious-author-of-the-goldfinch/

Does Tartt realize that both of them are multiple personality stories? Many people do realize that Jekyll-Hyde is a multiple personality story, but most people do not realize that Peter Pan is, too.

Peter Pan is the story of a prepubescent boy who never grows up. The only place where such a boy exists is in multiple personality, where child-aged alternate personalities are child-aged, because they originate in the person’s childhood, are frozen in time, remain the same age, and never grow up.