“The Shipping News” (post 5) by Edna Ann Proulx, writing as Annie Proulx: Whatever happened to the names “Edna” and “Ann” (no “ie”)?

“Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Proulx

Edna

“Remember Edna the rewrite woman on the Record?…

“Yeah. She never smiled at me. Not once.”

“…It hit me after Edna called what a fucking miserable place we’re in. There’s no place you can go no more without getting shot or burned or beat. And I was laughing.’ And Quoyle thought he heard his friend crying on the other side of the continent. Or maybe he was laughing again” (1, pp. 290-291). 

Comment: In multiple personality, the alternate personalities may be named with seemingly trivial variations of the name with which the person was born. 

The seemingly trivial difference between the author’s birth name, “Ann,” and her pen name or pseudonym, “Annie,” may be quite significant to the alternate personalities who have each of those names.

Perhaps the alternate personality who handles the author’s revisions is named “Edna, the rewrite woman” (1, p. 290). And there may also be a personality named “Ann,” who has other interests and responsibilities.

1. Annie Proulx. The Shipping News [1993]. New York, Scribner, 2003.

Comment added same day: The conclusion of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, though plausible, insults the intelligence of the reader.