Re: teddy, at ten, is seymour at thirty.

I think it should be noted that two competing methods for reading
Salinger are at work here.

Kim reads Salinger's stories as they were published and limits their
meaning within a specific chronology (e.g., Salinger couldn't have been
making reference to vedanta in "Bananafish" because he hadn't read it
yet").

Michael seems to be reading the "Salinger Canon" as a unified whole,
allowing later stories to influence his reading of earlier ones.

There's a lot to be said for both methods. Kim's is more rigorous.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>Interesting thanks, when I first read Bananafish after catcher I was
>imagining some one unable to adjust back to post war life, of course the
>rest of the saga changed that impression.
>Daniel
>
>

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