Muriel questions


Subject: Muriel questions
From: Jon Tveite (jontv@ksu.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 28 1997 - 15:48:44 GMT


Lisa M. Rabey <lisar@net-link.net> wrote:

>another salinger note: started re-reading "nine stories", and thinking
>about 'apdfb", and one thing keeps going through my mind, WHY did seymour
>marry muriel? She's obviously the antithesis of his soul. The only
>'logical' thing that i could think of would be that he married her
>because he felt, to an extent, that by dating someone non-glassesque, he
>could save himself, which he knew even further down, was horribley not
>true.

A good question. My own personal feeling, which I can't really
substantiate with citations) is that he married her because she wanted him
to. It was important for her, and so he went along -- kind of how Waker
gave away his new bicycle just because some other kid asked for it.

That explanation, however, begs another question: why did Muriel want so
badly to marry Seymour? It seems that a young woman of her social status
could have found a much more suitable trophy husband than this moody,
anti-social Zen poet in ill-fitting clothes.

Jon (Tveite) <jontv@ksu.edu>
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