Subject: does JDS use stereotypes?
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 1997 - 10:49:04 GMT
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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