Subject: Re: does JDS use stereotypes?
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 1997 - 14:22:29 GMT
and let us not forget that at the end of De Daumier, our hero, on vacation
from art school, is left to "investigating that most intersesting of all
summer-active animals, the American girl in Shorts." The capital letter
in "Shorts" is probably s for sterotype! will
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
>
> Salinger most certainly works with stereotypes. As someone has been
> pointing out in all of the pleasantries that have been passing the list
> lately, many of Saligner's stories actually engage stereotypes directly
> and actively. Lane is stereotypically "intellectual"; Stradlater,
> Ackley--almost every minor character in any given Salinger piece proceeds
> from an established stereotype. Indeed, even Seymour can be approached as
> stereotypcially weird.
>
> Much of JDS's fiction works on standard yearbook
> stereotypes. I don't see that this is ever not obvious, and I don't see
> that Salinger ever tries to disguise it. Salinger presents character
> traits that are meant to invoke a regular and consistent response from
> readers--that are meant to engender in the reader a certain consistent
> idea of a character.
>
> Matt
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