Peter and Wendy
It isn't new, this understanding that Peter Pan is a vain, cocky perpetual boy with a fear of all things adult. In fact, it was always there, right there in JM Barrie's book, and in all his other little stories of this magical lad. Barrie knew what he was writing about. Disney and the familiar musical version (Mary Martin's) sweetened it to just a kind of sugar-cookie kiddies adventure, and that is all most of us ever have known of it: just a story. But it isn't 'just a story.' It is a myth. And... Sign in to see full entry.