Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes

James Chung (jcrotch@eden.rutgers.edu)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT)

I can't give any exact proof right now, mainly because I wasn't planning
on asking this, but could the girl in the story somehow be Muriel?  Once
again, I don't have the corresponding literature with me to back me up,
but I remember something in Seymour: An Introduction.  Specifically, the
last two poems before his death alluding to an affair or something else?
And as Buddy takes credit for writing Teddy and Catcher in the Rye, could
he have possibly written Pretty Mouth...also, alluding to Seymour?  Buddy
being the Salinger figure, that is.  I'll have to go back and look over
the story.  Am I just being foolish?  Please tell me what you guys think.
							
							-Jimmy Jim Jim