Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 22:28:57 EST
In a message dated 2/17/00 6:47:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
invertedforest@angelfire.com writes:
> It is indicated in Seymour:An Introduction that A Perfect Day For
Bananafish
> is not by JD Salinger as such, but is Buddy's take as an author on
Seymour's
> suicide. Therefore rather than being a `true' story in which suspension of
> disbelief allows us to accept the idea of an omnipotent narrator, it is
Buddy'
> s attempt to rationalise the suicide in a purely fictional, speculative
> manner.
>
> ---
> Louise Z. Brooks
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?
BTW, been really enjoying your posts and Matt's lately...
Jim
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