Subject: Re: the bell jar
From: Jonathan Moritz (Jonathan.Moritz@educ.utas.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 02 1997 - 00:28:47 GMT
>I just read The Bell Jar and I thought it was sooooo good. I realize
>that doesn't have anything to do with Salinger, but if anyone who has
>read it would like to COMMENT on it or anything....that'd be nice.
I have a copy of the Bell Jar with a coment on the front something like:
"the lead character is somewhat like Salinger's Franny ten years later - if
she had spent those ten years in hell." [paraphrased from memory]
>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.
Jonathan.
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