Subject: Re: the bell jar
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Wed Apr 02 1997 - 01:12:04 GMT
>>Anyway, In Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenters, Seymour said that he had
>>scars on his hand from touching a yellow dress and patting Franny's
>>head....(not exactly how it went). I thought that was the best part of
>>the entire book.
>
>I agree this is a significant part too, but I'm not sure what to make of
>it. The scars certainly show these encounters "left their marks", or
>deeply affected Seymour. Except I'm not sure about the perfection bit, even
>thought in Seymour's diary, the psychoanalyst says S is a perfectionist for
>suggesting the speech should just be a shaking of the fist.
>
i thought that the scars were from their perfection contrasting with his assumed
imperfection, and the contrast scarred his psyche.--matt
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