Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 23:30:55 EST
Yes - I never claimed that this was something Salinger did anything but retrospectively. 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?' 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 "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:42:00 Ed Fenning wrote: > > >--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote: >> Yes, but when it was first published -- would >> readers then have had the >> benefit of that conceit, or read it in a more >> traditional way? Isn't what >> you're describing a later gloss Salinger has thrown >> on the stories? > >This, traditional way is the how we read and discussed >it in my senior high school English class (I wrote >about this in the "first time" posting), and there's >certainly a lot more going on in the long run.... :) >- Ed >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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