Another annoying message from me (Salinger and Sherwood)
JDHadden@aol.com
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:24:14 -0400 (EDT)
I was reading Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", today (Modern Library
edition, naturally) and I was startled when I read the story "The Thinker" At
first I kept thinking "it sounds almost like he's writing about me"... Then I
remembered that the only other time I had felt this was in reading CITR....
As I read more of the story, I felt more and more as if the character, Seth
Richmond, was just like Holden Caulfield... Seth complained of the "people
who just talked all of the time" but didn't really say anything, while Holden
complained of "phonies"... After reading "Winesburg", and "The Thinker", in
particular, I am almost convinced that the character of Seth was the basis of
Holden. I could almost believe that Holden is a more mature Seth (althought
the age discrepencies would disprove this theory)!...
Before you dismiss this as just another of my pointless ramblings, didn't
Buddy breifly mention Sherwood Anderson in Seymour?
JD