Re: a watching brief
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:20:01 +1000
> But, then, you do have "serious" commentators very consciously deciding
to
> interpret it just thus in scholarly articles, purportedly
> "psycho-analysing" Holden Caulfield and propounding the view that
> Salinger is suggesting Holden's incestuous longings for Phoebe and his
> attempts to repress and camouflage them. It would have been hilarious had
> it been not so pathetic. Wait, let me dig one out that has stayed in my
> memory:
I don't agree with the Phoebe-Holden thing (it's always made me feel a
little sick in the stomach) but the Jane Gallager plot convinces me that
one of the submerged themes of the book could be that Holden was abused as
a child and that he doesn't want to carry on the perpetration of that to
the next generation, as so often happens in such incidences.
Camille
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