Re: hapworth 23??


Subject: Re: hapworth 23??
From: ted vanderveldt (tvanderveldt@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 16:07:31 GMT


will:

I think there is a passage in RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAM . . . (a diary entry,
I believe) that answers the Seymour+Muriel question.

ted
--- Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >ted,
> >one who believes that Seymour was sexually attracted to Muriel not Sybil
> >
>
> Ted, first of all, I was stunned by your question about how and why
> "Glass" became Seymour's last name...I'm utterly clueless on that one.
>
> I'm glad we can agree that Paul Alexander tried to explain too much
> about JDS based on his sexual history and I think you're right that
> Muriel did attract Seymour sexually and not Sybil. Why do you think
> Seymour was attracted to Muriel? Is it because of how she looks like
> Charlotte, because she honors marriage deeply, or because Seymour
> doesn't see sex as holy (I suspect Salinger doesn't either--what a
> mistake!) and needs someone very secular to have fun with...waddaya
> think? will
> --
> Will Hochman
>
> Assistant Professor of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
> http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
>
>
>
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