lly developed character; others appear more as archetypes than as real people. This is only appropriate, however, when one considers Pinball as an allegory, a fable similar to the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs. Pinball repays multiple readings, and lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned. ( Amazon Book Review) There are major similarities between Goddard and former rock star John Lennon. Mark David Chapman, a drifter who had gotten Lennons autograph just a few hours earlier, fatally shot him just outside his New York apartment building. Chapman, like Andrea was an obsessed fan. One difference between Chapman and Andrea is that Andrea didnt succeed in killing Goddard while Chapman was successful in killing Lennon. Another difference is that Andreas motive for attempting to kill Goddard was to get his money while Chapmans motives are unclear. It is very possible that there is a connection between Pinball and Lennons death for Kosinski started to work on Pinball only a few months after Lennons assassination. Domostroy was Pinballs most fully developed character and its very possible that this story was an allegory similar to the fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. In the fable, there is a wife and her husband who have a goose that lays golden eggs. The wife and her husband become irritated because the goose can only lay one egg at a time. Therefore, they decide to cut the goose open so that they can get all of the golden eggs all at once. Unfortunately for the poor couple, when they cut open the goose they find no golden eggs and the goose is now dead. The couple in the story became so overcome by greed that they didnt realize that what they had already was good because they could only think about how they wanted more. Both Andrea and Jimmy Osten are similar to the couple in the fable. Andrea is a beautiful young woman who comes from a very rich family. She has plenty of friends and mon...
