Subject: Re: suicide
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 15:48:39 EST
In a message dated 2/26/00 9:47:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk writes:
<< Having said that, my own contact with suicides suggests that for
anyone to commit suicide they have to be either in deepest despair, or
they have to be sacricing themselves for a cause which they perceive as
more important than anything else (like the Buddhist freedom fighters
who burn themselves to death). I'd like to think it was the latter, but
there's not really very much evidence to support it.
Love, Lucy-Ruth >>
Yeah, Salinger's texts don't really give us any Reasons, but do drop a few
hints now and then. The hints I've picked up on seemed to point in the
direction that his suicide was a reaction to the big old bad world...a
reaction of sorts. Even in APDFBF, you see Seymour's ease with children
contrasted with his inability to relate to adults.
If I was going to tie this in to his family guru role, his devotees had
probably outgrown him.
Jim
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