Subject: RE: Why Buddy?
From: Gillan, Grady Stuart (gillang@student.northpark.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 19:35:16 GMT
like i said i'm real new to the list so i dont know how much this has been
previously dicussed...
but the theme of suicide as a means of preserving childhood seems to pop up
in a few salinger works. in fact i think it might be possible that that
holden is in a hospital when he is writing CITR because of some such attept.
he certainly makes allusions to it. also, allie- who is dead and therefore
forever a child- is usually spoken of higher than DB- who is now a phony
adult prostituting himself in hollywood.
maybe buddy had reached such a state of conciousness that he was able to see
what adulthood was like and refused to enter into it...
or maybe i just need to go back and re-read the story...
~grady~
in chicago
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