It may be helpful to consider Ebenezer Scrooge. After all, Buechner's fictions reconfigure the elements of the familiar Dickens Christmas narrative--death-haunted, morally-challenged creatures of the immediate wrestle with potent paranormal phenomena that intrude without warning into their crabbed immediate to oversee the significant upheaval that leads ultimately to (un)earned spiritual reformation. Of course, we must be careful. Despite an acknowledged fondness for Dickens, Buechner, as minister, might resist as model the reclamation drama of Scrooge--after all, Scrooge is visited by ghosts, not angels; his reformation happens without the Christian rituals of examination and preparation--indeed, he is sleeping the whole time; his reclamation ignites no deep love for anything divine but turns him rather to the business of loving humanity--horizontal, rather than vertical movement. But we can recognize the Scrooge narrative in Buechner's long fascination with the Jacob figure from Genesis: another imperfect, unpromising figure, a conniving sensualist unconvinced of the God-assertion, a calculating materialist who comes to wrestle with paranormal phenomena of his own--the faceless stranger/angel along the banks...
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