Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?


Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:46:24 EST


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.

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Louise Z. Brooks
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:13:23 Matt Kozusko wrote: >Bruce writes: > >> Is there an inference that the details as presented in APDFB are >> off, in part due to that German typewriter? Or the details are the same, >> but Buddy needs to "massage" them to fit the 1955-on "Seymour" as opposed to >> the '48 see more glass? > >...The 1953-on Seymour, it might be, since "Teddy" effectively >signifies the demise of the original understanding of Seymour's >Florida frolick. I wonder, then--though such speculation would have >L.C. Knights absolutely convulsing in his grave--whether any of the >details in "Bfish" are at all "accurate"? Perhaps Buddy made the >whole thing up. Perhaps everything after the phone call (one bullet >excepted) is imaginative speculation. Once authorship switches from >JDS to Buddy and see more becomes Seymour, the events of "Bananafish" >become purely fictional. > >-- >Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >

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