Through Aunt Mary’s flashbacks, Peck’s past as a World War II veteran comes to light he is as a man who is “swimming against the tide…fighting the trouble-whatever has burrowed deeper than the scar tissue” (Vogel 45).Ī man troubled by memories of death and war that he doesn’t talk about, Vogel presents us with a sympathetic lens through which to understand Peck’s pedophilia when we learn that Li’l Bit is not his first victim. Peck, who married Li’l Bit’s Aunt Mary, is not a blood relative, but he is a pedophile who manipulates his relationship with young children in order to satisfy his quest for innocence and love. In How I Learned to Drive, playwright Paula Vogel introduces us to a state of otherness relegated upon a girl by an older “uncle” figure who projects his anxieties and desires upon her innocence.
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