Subject: Re: Cravenhearted.
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 17:08:12 GMT
--- Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu> wrote:
> I think "Hapworth" is
> about writing and the how the spirit of poetry is something to find
> in one's sense of God or holiness.
Yes, writing because that's where one begins to find ones sense of God.
He's found something of a beginning in these books but there's only so far
he could go alone, so he's asking his parents for a truckload more and
crying for a teacher who can help him find his way.
But, if he's wanting a teacher and cannot find one, if he spends the next
thirty years at the same place he was when he was seven, if he's
confronted all day long with all this useless beauty and no way to get to
the next step, then what?
It seems to me that this story is all about Buddy understanding why
Seymour felt he had to kill himself after a lifetime of suffering in
stagnation.
> Of course I would read it that
> way...that's what my life is about...but I really think that your
> quote starts us thinking about just what it is Seymour is trying to
> teach himself and the Glass family.
Well, and he's the Glass family teacher, is he not? They don't have this
needing instruction problem because he's there, and by his life, they're
learning.
I think.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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