Subject: Re: Eskimos: a fowl sandwich
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:38:14 EST
It is surely not my imagination that this is the most perplexing of the 9 Stories. No, I'm wrong - `Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes' takes that medal. Never did like that one.
All I can offer is Bessie Glass and her nourishing bowls of chicken soup which Salinger, son of a doting Jewish mother, surely got offered him after such traumas as the breakdown of his Comanche leader and dropping all his marbles on the floor of the museum. Perhaps - as it seems in this story - it's simply a symbol of nurturing.
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:17:52 Matt Kozusko wrote: > >Paul Miller wrote some excellent things about "Just Before the War >with the Eskimos" earlier this month. > >We have just finished discussing it in my composition class, and I now >wonder aloud what Paul and others might make of the awkward but >delicious link between a chicken sandwich and an easter chick. > >Other things the class wanted to resolve included: Why the homosexual >friend, Eric? and Does Ginnie's eagerness to return to the Graff >household have anything to do with a romantic attraction to Franklin? >Finally, I myself had a horrible feeling that if "Seymour" has to >become see-more, then Mrs. Basehoar has to become Mrs. Base Whore. >But I didn't mention it. > >-- >Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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