In
‘We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy’ the homeless are children, sleeping
in alleyways and under Brooklyn Bridge, their only protection from the elements
being newspaper property pages of real estate tycoons. Maurice Sendak merges two
nursery rhymes to tell a story of kittens and a “poor little kid” stolen off
the street by rats, that then play cards with magnanimous Jack and Guy for
their release. Reading this story from 1993 again in June 2016 details magnify
in meaning. ‘Lost! Tricked. Trumped. Dumped!’ is the cry as the victims are
carted off to an orphanage.
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