Re: Back to School

Yeah, there's some real ambivalence there...good observations. It's hard to say
where it comes from. An outsider's resentment? Annoyed by criticism but too
big a reader himself? Seems like there was one line in Raise High or S:AI about
the real problem with lit studies being its dependence upon psychoanalysis,
psychanalysis being the only thing Salinger hated as much at literary critics...

Jim

Aaron Sommers wrote:

> One of the most interesting aspects of Salinger's works is when the subject
> of education is broached. There is the obvious contempt for the "parasitic"
> Lane Coutell's, who want praise for being a lit. critic and are candidates
> for future section men in various English Departments. Then there is
> Nicholson and the specialized educators (Lidekker group), who like to study
> people like Teddy and Zooey, trying to map a blueprint of how the gears in
> them turn. But just when I believe that Salinger is moving in a direction
> that suggests children should teach themselves, that English professors are
> leeches, and that English depratments are useless because you "can't keep a
> born scholar ignorant" anyway, I realize the author's "alter-ego" teaches
> "Advanced Writing 24-A". And how many members of his all girl composition
> class will turn into Mrs. Fedder's, do you think? Moreover, Seymour was the
> first to choose his profession as an English Professor, at any Ivy League
> school, no less. But he had certainly been a mentor within the family long
> before that official appointment at age 18. Also, Mr. Antolini was the only
> person Holden respected from school. So does anyone else notice while
> Salinger derives pleasure in bad-mouthing aspects of education, he still has
> respect for the teaching profession?
>
> -Aaron
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