Commentary
The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 by Robert L. May. It first appeared in a coloring book printed by the department store Montgomery Ward. It only later became a song and eventually part of the Christmas story all over the English-speaking world. But how often do we consider its darker and truer themes?
Rudolph was of course born off-season but his nose was a bit weird, and he was treated horribly by the rest of the herd that was destined to pull Santa’s sleigh. They ganged up on him in a typical childish groupthink and worked to keep him excluded from all social activities, entirely due to what appeared to be some birth defect….