Subject: How Many Sisters Had Sybil Carpenter
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 19:15:34 EST
Louise again:
"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."
But of course it *is* by J. D. Salinger. Buddy is a convenient device
for excusing a great shift in plans. Nothing, neither way, as far as
I can tell.
-- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu - * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
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