Re: Seymour an Introduction

will,

thanks for the below. i guess i'll have to read booth
to really follow this. (being a very reluctant
amateur reader of lit crit, i haven't ever.)

do you agree that salinger in 's:ai', in part, is
attempting to answer some of his critics? and that
when the two glass books were published, and the
general reaction was thumbs down, he said hell with
them, here's 'hapworth' for the select and his own
self, and then hasta la vista. of course when he
tiptoed back 30 years later with the idea of
publishing 'hapworth', the glasses were damned again
in the nytimes. the ultimate success or failure or
combination thereof of the glass saga seems to me to
ultimately hinge on the unpublished mss. it's like
assessing 'ulysses' with only the first 5 chapters
available. [jim: :)]

kim
--- Will Hochman <hochmanw1@southernct.edu> wrote:
> 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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