Re: 'It's a cold world...'
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Wed, 03 Dec 1997 23:06:25 -0800
Peggy F. Jean-Louis wrote:
> This story reminds me of a line in "F&Z" where Buddy says that Zooey is
> the only one who was still bitter about Seymour's suicide but that he was
> the only one who had forgiven him for it. I wondered about that quite a
> bit, they seemed incompatible to me at first. But I finally decided that
> what Buddy meant was that Zooey had dealt with Seymour's suicide in the
> healthiest possible way. He had let Seymour go in a way that the others
> hadn't, especially Franny - Seymour was who she wanted to talk to, and
> Buddy - who was obsessed with writing about him. In a way, those
> townspeople are still trying to hold on to these two boys by blaming, being
> angry and unforgiving towards Jenny.
>
> I thought it was an interesting parallel.
>
> Peggy
I knew there was an unconscious reason why I posted that to the list, but
couldn't really articulate it to myself until you posted this message. Thank
you Peggy. That line in Buddy's letter I seem to think about on a very
regular basis. Perhaps that's why it faintly resonated in me when I read that
news story.
Malcolm