Re: A link
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:16:48 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Cheryl Cline <ccline@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 7:23 PM
Subject: A link
>I felt like sharing this link with some of you writer people. Here it
>is:
>
>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr/links.html
>
>I haven't been following the discussion too closely lately, so I'm just
>going to throw out a question of my own. I don't get what's happening
>with the old man in "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes." The old man seems
>to get irritated after he hangs up the phone, at the end of the story.
>This isn't the most developed question. Anyway, I just don't get it.
>
>Yup.
>Cheryl Cline
The "headache" that the Old Man complains of at the stories ending is his
way of getting off the phone with Arthur. The guilt he feels about sleeping
with Joanie has gotten the best of him and he, rather cowardly, ends his
conversation. I can't help thinking of Arthur and the Old Man as older
versions of Holden and Stradlater.
Patrick
pfkw@msn.com