Re: Seymour an Introduction

Kim, I think you start to answer your own q...Buddy is an unreliable
narrator (not a poor one!) because the mixture of fact and fiction
about him is grey...I don't have Booth or SAI handy (I'm in my
in-laws apartment on Park Ave less than a mile from where JDS grew up
and have yet to see a decent game of stoop ball), but I can suggest
that what we know of Seymour (as the subject of SAI) is presented by
Buddy, but he needs help from Seymour and questions his own authority
to describe what he's describing. When I add in the possibility that
Buddy is a thinly veiled JDS voice to the fact that Buddy (like
Holden) is an important character as well as story narrator, then
Booth's idea of an unreliable narrator helps me see character and
narration more clearly. Again, I want to stress that Booth's use of
"unreliable" is not pejorative, and yes, I'm quite certain I sound
like a silly section man today. Sorry but not silent, not quite
enough, will
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