Re: Plot Plot Plot?

Susan Pearson (susanp@ou.edu)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:46:06 -0600

> 
> It's lines like that -- the narrator's throwaway remarks -- that make
> Salinger stories so memorable.  That and the dialogue, of course.  The
> perfect pitch that catches the italics that appear in only one syllable of
> a long word.
> 


One line that has always got me is in "Raise High" when he describes the
woman in the car with him as a "jump seat Mona Lisa." Beautiful...

Susan