Subject: Re:Flowers for Algernon and CITR
From: Cecilia Baader (cbaader@cubsmvp.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 02:44:39 GMT
Graham Preston <gpreston@mail.com> wrote:
>
>I recently (just an hour ago actually) read "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel
>Keyes (the novel, not the short story) and, as usual, found myself drawing
>parallels to Catcher.
Dear Graham,
It's been many years since I read "Flowers for Algernon" (the short story) or saw the play and, yes, even the movie "Charley". So, you'll have to take what I have to say with a lump of sugar because my recollection is flawed, I'm sure.
I guess that the reason that you're probably finding so many connections is less due to a planned connectivity in the two books but because the messages in both seem to be universal. A dispossessed young man learning to live in a harsh world. Holden and Charley seem similar perhaps because they're both dreamers, no? And they're both dealing with so many of the same things because, well, that's the ugly world.
I'm sorry that this response is so vague. Your post really deserved better, but I didn't want you to feel like you were posting into a giant void. I see The Catcher in the Rye connections everywhere, too.
>Go Mets!
(Boo.)
Regards,
Cecilia.
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