Subject: Re: John Keats/John Keats/John/ Please put your scarf on.
From: Benjamin Samuels (madhava@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 20:42:53 EDT
Thanks for the nice post Ceccilia,
I especially liked this:
> He's not the sainted suicidee that he started out to be in Bananafish. If
> you take a look at each of the stories, as time goes by, Seymour grows
more
> human. More real, almost.
Almost like he's coming back to life... Birth, Death, and Rebirth. A great
theme.
But here:
> You could play the devil's advocate and tell me that Seymour is so
different
> in this story because we're not looking at him through Buddy's
rose-colored
> glasses anymore.
I think the idea works just as well if not better if we do see Hapworth as
totally contrived by Buddy. In this wway he is bringing Seymour back to
life with this story- really the greatest tribute anyone can pay to martyr
or a saint.
Love,
Ben
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