Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?


Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 00:08:37 EST


In a message dated 2/17/00 11:31:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
invertedforest@angelfire.com writes:

<< It's this question that all of the subsequent Glass literature ponders -
and Salinger's perception of the question and its answer has changed in the
ensuing years. Therefore, I think it's unnecessarily facile to claim that he
did it just to fob off the critics.
 
 (but your compliment does at least make me feel a little better about
constant trips to the Inbox when I should have been working, Jim! ;) )
 ---
 Louise Z. Brooks >>

Nah, you misunderstood me. Salinger didn't kill off Seymour of fob off the
critics. He added the Buddy Glass Really Was the Author of Bananafish gloss
to fob off the critics. Seymour's suicide is in a class with Holden wanting
to go live in a cabin and Franny having a nervous breakdown - it's a
rejection of society by the sensitive and perceptive on the basis of their
idealism. So the suicide itself is very important.

It's the authorship issue that's a gloss.

I would modify that though. I think if we use Buddy's Glasses "authorship"
of Bananafish as a commentary on the creative process and, perhaps, on
Saligner's view of his own creativity (and the meaning of his writing to
Him), we may find ourselves on some interesting ground. But if we use
Buddy's authorship of Bananafish as an interpretive strategy for Bananafish,
we do nothing more than walk into a hall of mirrors...

Jim
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