Subject: Re: Seymour
From: Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 18 1997 - 01:03:07 GMT
Hey.
Just a few thoughts.
I had a weird thought as I was closing a garage door about if Seymour
never existed. He might be a metaphor for what Buddy wants to be and
what he wants his family to be. Comments?
On a completely different level/scale/subject. I was rereading RHTRC and
the line "We were boys together," struck me. I looked through Zooey (?)
and read the line, "We're freaks." Could the first quote be a reference
to the time before Seymour found religion in the pages of the books at
the library? And the second quote a reference to what they were and are?
Again, comments?
And...
A few days (weeks?) ago there was dicssion abou the story, "teddy."
Here's something that occured to me as I watched a Woody Allen movie
(could there be no other type of film to think about Salinger?). It
concerned the sister that screamed. Could Teddy have kissed his sister's
arch of her foot, like Seymour? And the girl could of done like Sybil and
ran away, screaming. This introduces a new chronology of the story:
Teddy becomes Seymour -> Teddy kisses his sister's arch -> Teddy then
comits suicide or Teddy (in Holdenish fashion) decides to go out west but
is stopped by Bob Carpenter (or whatever that guy's name was.
Another thought about Teddy:
The Bob Carpenter (what is his name. That's the only name I can think
of.) character is Seymour and talks to what he see's as himself at an
early age. Or the Bob charcter is a reincarnation of Seymour (notice the
talk about reincarnation.)
Graham
Insert some Mamet quote here, please.
candidate one: "You sure you don't have a cup cake?" from 'Squirrils.'
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