Subject: CITR and Six Degrees of Separation
From: Suzanne Morine (suzannem@dimensional.com)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 21:26:56 GMT
I just saw Six Degrees of Separation (1993) last night for the first time.
It includes an analysis of The Catcher in the Rye and I feel that the end
of the movie also relates back to that analysis. I looked around online for
anyone discussing or expanding on this and found nothing. Also, the
bananafish archives go back to 1997 and a search there turned up nothing.
If you want to read the relevant parts of the movie, they are online:
<http://www.whysanity.net/monos/sdop.html>
<http://www.whysanity.net/monos/degrees.html>
Anyone have thoughts on it? Disagreements with it?
One thing I question is the idea that Holden "folds" at the end of the
story. I assume "fold" here is like quitting a card game when the stakes
get too high/risky. Since Holden writes about everything with such passion
and wit *after* that "folding" point, I don't entirely buy that
interpretation. But it is an interesting thought that Salinger made Holden
so engaged in writing about his struggle only to keep the book interesting
but that Holden did acquiesce in his struggle by the end, in the rain by
the carrousel. I mean, otherwise, I've always thought that ending was weak.
Suzanne
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