Ashley, YES, I do agree salinger and woolf have similar ways of loving their characters! I think it's in their narrators and that space where character and author cozy up to get the job done...there's a confluence of authorial and characgter personae for both authors that has been clear to me since I studied VW with Mitchell Leaska at NYU...but I had to break with him over my salinger disseratation. Prof leaska was not happy with me when I showed him that a previous salinger dissertation he had chaired was flawed--nonetheless, we had both seen what you allude to, so thank you, will