well, i don't think i'm arguing that there are not similarities between the
glasses and caulfields. there obviously are. to me. but then, there is a
reason for changing the names. i mean, he COULD have made vincent and kenneth
and holden and phoebe contestants on WISE CHILD...in fact, wasn't curtis
caulfield a wise child contestant?...the most obvious reason for changing the
names is...
catcher in the rye burnt him out. he didn't want to make anybody happy with
CITR II - The Revenge. So he ticked people off so that they leave him alone.
created the glasses who everybody hated, who were misfits, all about him. but
franny didn't work. zooey didn't work. raise high and seymour and
introduction came closer. finally, most hated his writing enough to leave him
mostly completely alone because hapworth told the world that he is no longer
going to write anything for those CITR fans who think he's great to bother and
invade his privacy. (sorry for typing so fast, probably doesn't make sense
but i don't have time to make it now)
>>> daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil 08/27/03 12:29PM >>>
Not so fast you fried PB&J eating mofo, maybe the striking similarities stem
from the fact that they popped out of the same primordial goo sloshing
around in Jerome's pond. Something old, something new, something borrowed
and something blue and now I pronounce them husband and wife, you may kiss
my....post.
Daniel
why the striking similarities then, between the caulfields/glasses. if he
was
going to create new characters under a new surname...
there was a reason for the surname change and i think it has nothing to do
with the story/spiritual avenues that were open for either the glasses or
caulfields. my assumption is that he thought seymour glass was more clever
sounding than kenneth, vincent, or even holden. i think cleverness was
salinger's wooden leg. and that's why i am compelled to read further than
biographies will go! because he's got some THING going on underneath it all
and whoever guesses it correctly will be drivin in a hummer limosine to his
door to read all the stories he's written since 1965 in privacy before all
else! yay! i have left the building!
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