Subject: Re: word wrap ski frog
From: James Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 18:14:39 GMT
Oh, ok...maybe his word wrap is turned off too, then...I know mine was and didn't know it.
Jim
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl wrote:
> eeeh, sorry, but I had difficulties read skifrogs message as well, maybe he/she could do something about it?
> Just a suggestion ...
>
> Zazie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Jim Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:02 PM
> To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
> Subject: Re: here goes...
>
> First off, the word wrap problem was MINE and not yours. EESH. I was
> checking e-mail on a different computer and didn't check the
> settings...sorry.
>
> Anyway, I have a bit of a different opinion of Joanie's husband. I think
> he did love her very much, and paid very close attention to her, and that
> the observations he makes are important precisely because they're about
> small and unimportant things. That's a sign he's paying attention. I
> think he knew exactly what color her eyes were, but perhaps thought
> something else about them was more important (if seashells isn't somehow a
> reference to color -- my ex-wife had eyes that tended to change color with
> what she was wearing, they varied from gray to light brown, so Joanie may
> have had similar eyes). I think...and this fits in well with the tensions
> in some of Salinger's other fiction...that he couldn't live up to her
> "standards" in some way.
> His response to her judgment tended to drive her away rather than draw her
> near, because he felt plagued by the thought of his inadequacy, as it
> reinforced his already low self esteem -- which was doubly reinforced by
> her infidelity. The reader is in the position of Lee, seeing this nearly
> destroyed soul and feeling a sense of complicity in its destruction. When
> I felt I finally understood most of what was going on (and it took awhile),
> I was overwhelmed by how pathetic Joanie's husband was...and how selfish
> Joanie was...but understood why both were responding as they were.
>
> I don't think a better story about adultery has been written.
>
> Jim
>
> SkiFrog717@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > i know i'm probably taking this too far but it's just weird about the seashell eye thing.. but what i'm sticking with now is that it definitely is joanie, and the husband, in the midst of saying the things he likes about his wife, which are only a few and are pretty vague(thats not the word i'm looking for, im trying to say the things he mentions are not important? kind of insignificant, ahh this is frustrating there's a really good word i just cant think of it) he jsut doesn't appreciate her, and it woudln't surprise me if he got her eye color wrong- this is why i'm goign with he was mistaken in her eye color. so, there's where i stand. i want to talk about some other stories too but i think i'll write a separate email when i decide what's next- jess
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