The Stepping Off Place
2020-08-10
Attracted to the bold, the risky, and the unknown, Hattie Darrow plays Don Quixote to Reid MacGregory’s role as Sancho Panza. Reid is content playing Hattie’s side-kick extraordinaire in pranks and at parties. Where Reid is calm and reasonable, Hattie is spontaneous and daring; her energy luminesces around her. From the time Reid met Hattie in middle school, Reid saw her potential and declared: “Being Hattie Darrow’s friend would make me better” (51). As the two are about to enter their senior year in high school, Hattie is still Reid’s social oxygen. “Humiliation is a language [Hattie] doesn’t speak, and she doesn’t want [Reid] toRead More →