Charlie Brown is a depressed loser who chooses self-defeat as a shield against succeess.
Linus in the pumpkin patch waiting in vain for the Great Pumpkin to appear is a vicious satire of religious faith. His philosophical guise is his security blanket.
Lucy van Pelt is a sadist and manipulator.
Pigpen is filthy due to self-neglect, maybe self hatred.
Snoopy is an escapist who hates reality.
Violet is a narcissist.
Sally is a mindless fool with almost no attention span.
Schroeder is an obsessive.
Spike is a wetback and racist stereotype.
Woodstock is a fluttering ineffectual bumbler, a mockery of the hippie movement.
The Little Red-Haired Girl is the unreachable ideal, in Charlie Brown’s eyes, a better person he can’t even bring himself to approach directly but whom he stalks.
Peppermint Patty is an unreconstructed butch dyke lesbian.
Marcy is the effeminate lesbian Patty targets, and who submits weakly.
Charles Schultz was mean-spirited, a life-long chronic depressive, and a misanthrope, yet he is easily America’s most popular strip cartoonist. What does this say about America?
