Subject: Re: Zooey's use of buddy
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 22:40:13 EST
Possibly - even probably, given that from memory it's a long time before we learn Boo Boo's real name (my memory is terrible on such things - is it Beatrice? Calling any child Beatrice is a definite boo boo :) ) In some ways, maybe this is Salinger's way of attempting to induct us into the fold, of assuming that we already know who's who, their nicknames and personal quirks. In another way, it has quite the opposite effect, of pushing the reader out of the line of familiarity by actively excluding them from proceedings - just like those annoying people who give you a long boring story about a group of their friends who you don't know and don't care!
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:07:37 AntiUtopia wrote: >In a message dated 2/22/00 10:45:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, >jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes: > >> I'm not going to even venture a guess about what this means, how this >> plays. But I would like to hear what you guys have to say. >> >> -jason > >My first knee jerk reaction would be to call it coincidental, because it's a >VERY common verbal trick, esp. among Zooey's generation and a couple >generations immediately following. I'd even guess that Buddy isn't Buddy's >real name, but a nickname given him by someone else's use of this verbal >trick (probably Seymour). But that's just guessing on my part. > >Jim >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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