Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 10:04:00 EST
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, LR Pearson, Arts 99 wrote:
>
> It's quite clear that Bananafish was a slick story, with probably not much more behind it than
> `What if there was a poetic genius who took his own life for no apparent reason after the
> happiest day of his life?'
> Except that in APDFB Seymour as poetic genius is not that strong an
> iodea. One may get that impression, but if that story stood alone it
> would be easy just to see him as a madman.
>
> By the way, Louise, welcome to the list :-).
>
> Love, Lucy-Ruth
>
hmm, I don't think madman. I think they would see him as shell-shocked,
battle fatigued, a soldier come home. I think that's the story. It's
about innocence (Sybil) and experience (Myrrial) and innocence after
experience (Seymour). His innocence being attained the moment he pulls
the trigger (not the moment the bullet hits his skull). It's Blake.
That's how I saw it before I read the rest of the Glasses'.
-jason
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