Re: same name
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 12:27:29 +1000
Leila wrote:
> I just finished reading some stories in The Complete Uncollected...
> including Slight Rebellion Off Madison and ...No Waist At All, and I
noticed
> that the couple that Ray and Barbara meet in Waist have the last name as
> Sally in Rebellion (and Catcher?). Is it common thought that these
people
> are meant to be related?
There are quite a few incidences of this in Salinger's writing, just off
the top of my head I can remember Mrs Aigletinger, Holden Caulfield's
school teacher, who appears in the short story `The Inverted Forest', a
fellow contestant on `It's A Wise Child' whose surname is Caulfield ...
there's many more, we discussed this not that long ago. I think that rather
than being related, the characters exhibit in embryo Salinger's tendency
towards turning isolated texts into components of a larger master text -
what he did with all the Glass stories in the end.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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