Laura Palmer No Saint in Twin Peaks

In the series Twin Peaks, David Lynch provides his viewers with intriguing characters that keep the viewers; especially myself wanted to know "What happens next?” In the series Twin Peaks Laura Palmer is presented to be this wonderful person and beacon of purity and light. I argue that Laura Palmer is no saint that Twin Peaks heed her to be. Laura was not only a false symbol of a saint but she was a person with major psychological problem that even she doesn’t even know about. In the article, “The Canonization of Laura Palmer,” Christy Desmet explains that “Laura is represented as a typical middle-class teenager; in the course of time, she is shown to be sexually promiscuous, dependent on drugs, and plagued with psychological problems” (93). I argue that Twin Peaks chooses to look past Laura’s flaws and hold her up as martyr instead of facing the reality and seeing that she was just a dreadful person.

Jimmy M.