Subject: Re: Feet
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 11:40:53 EST
Lucy-Ruth wrote:
The young man looked, first with amazement and then with a kind
of respectful pity, AT MY FEET [capitalisation my own]. He must have
seen in them confirmation of my continuous withdrawals, for he nodded
understandingly.'
Now, I realise this is a little tenuous, but I think this is very
interesting in light of Seymour's feelings about the lady who looked at
his feet in the
elevator.-----------------------------------------------------------
I don't think this is tenuous at all when you consider that Salinger was a
big Rilke fan at the time of the writing of this story. So maybe their was
confirmation in his feet of a withdrawal from the world he was about to
make, or maybe Seymour and Rilke's character just thought that the other
person saw something and it was all in their mind about seeing withdrawal in
feet. Interesting and good detective work.
Paul
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