“First I tell it to him, and then he tells it to me, the understanding being that it is quite a different story and then I retell it with his additions, and so we go on until no one could tell whether it was more his story or mine.” 7 In this book he also writes about how he and George discussed Barrie’s idea of Peter Pan. 6 In The Little White Bird, a book about their relationship, Barrie shows that he too was very fond of George. 5 Barrie finally felt like he had a son especially since when they went to the shops people actually believed that he was George’s father. Especially George took an interest in their friendship because Barrie was so much like them, he loved to play games with them and entertain them with his endless imagination. It was there that he also met the Llewelyn Davies boys George, Jack and Peter accompanied by their nurse. He would tell them stories and take them on walks with his dog Porthos in Kensington Gardens. He played a part in the lives of many children. He never had any children of his own so he kept himself acquainted with the children of his friend’s. 4Įven before Barrie met the five Llewelyn Davies boys he fancied the company of children. This gave Barrie an idea: whilst everyone else was aging his dead brother always remained a 13-year-old boy in his mother’s mind, making him the boy who could not grow up, the inspiration for The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up in Peter Pan. Even though she outlived her son by 29 years she was never able to get over her 13-year-old boy dying. She always appeared as sad as the day her beloved David died, like it had happened yesterday. Furthermore, Barrie trying to replace David did not help his mother overcome the loss of her favourite son.
When their mother fell into deep despair after he died Barrie tried to become more like his brother until he realised he could not be anyone but himself. One of Barrie’s siblings, his older brother David, who had died in an ice-skating accident 3 seems to have given inspiration to a certain aspect of Peter Pan. 2 However, the most interesting aspect is finding similarities between Peter Pan and Barrie himself.
Barrie always claimed that he created Peter Pan by violently rubbing the five Llewelyn Davies boys together and that Pan was the spark he got from them. It is safe to say that Barrie had two main sources of inspiration, his older brother David and the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie’s life, the author of Peter Pan, and it will show that there were certain experiences that inspired him to come up with the story of a boy called Peter Pan. This paper will look into different aspects of J.M. These days not a lot of people know that Peter Pan is not just a Disney movie and most of the people who do know that Peter Pan was originally a play are not aware that although the story might be fiction the character of Peter Pan is not.
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