Could it be more obvious? Romney is the vampire aristocrat, Gingrich the up-by-his-bootstraps wolfman.Īmericans seeking to know more about Mormons this election season could do worse than read the “Twilight” trilogy. Edward’s a little wooden, while Jacob, a werewolf, has no problem expressing his emotions when the stakes are high. Edward is the scion of an ancient, close-knit family whose members, as vampires, are bound together for eternity. Jacob Black is volatile and passionate, self-made and fond of the ladies. Edward Cullen is tall, handsome and perfectly coiffed.
Suspicious of true love, she’s courted by combative suitors. The “Twilight” series’s main character, Bella Swan, buffeted by bad luck, is a stand-in for the voters. And each cites Meyer’s success at mainstreaming the values of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.īut what if the romantic triangle created by a Mormon housewife turned novelist isn’t merely a story of young love that celebrates abstinence and family? Suppose it’s a parable for the 2012 Republican presidential primary. Has “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer accomplished more than just writing one of the new millennium’s blockbusters, a multimedia phenomenon that cast supernatural creatures as teenage heartthrobs? Two new books, one a work of history, the other of cultural analysis, seek to explicate the “Mormon moment” for American readers.
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