Subject: Re: French and TLM
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 12:56:55 EST
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:01:15 -0600 Paul Miller <phm@midsouth.rr.com>
wrote:
> In French's book JDS Revisited he has a couple of pages on "The Laughing
> Man". He doesn't mention that Mary Hudson is pregnant even though Salinger
> almost knocks us over with this by having Mary sit between two baby
> carriages and then the nine year old author bumps into a baby carriage while
> walking backward,(and yes playing with a tangerine), looking at Mary and
> wondering what is wrong with her. On my first reading of this I thought JDS
> was quite obvious with the fact that she is pregnant. I guess not obvious
> enough.
Well, it had never occurred to me that she was pregnant. Doh! To be
fair, most of my readings of that story were done when I was a bit too
young to jump to the thought of pregnancy. Damn , it's a constant
problem, I have reinvented Salinger's stories so thoroughly through my
ten / twelve year old eyes that I miss out on loads of interesting
ideas. I guess that's why I'm a bananafish: I need someone to shake up
my old, sedentary ideas.
Love, LucyRuth
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lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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