Re: Re: Quick responses on Muriel...

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Awhile ago, Tim O'Conner wrote:

>I've always been troubled by Muriel (as many of my posts have said in the
>past), but last week I was working on a project that required me to
>literally consider the "Perfect Day" story word by word, and in doing so, I
>realized that Muriel emerges as a more complex character than I ever gave
>her credit for being.  (And cheers for the subscriber who recently lauded
>Muriel.)  She is a certain type of woman I've known in the past.  Initially
>her interests seemed silly to me, but in rereading the text so closely, I
>came to a better appreciation of her.  



I'd be very interested what your careful reading of "Bananafish" revealed to you
about Muriel.  If you could go into that in a little more detail, I'd greatly appreciate
it.
Brendan



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