AW: Clinamen beginagain - why did Seymour kill himself?
Lorentzen / Nicklaus (kflorentzen@dialup.nacamar.de)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:01:41 -0100
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Brendan wrote:
An interesting thing to consider is that everything we know
about Seymour, we really know through Buddy. This is where
things get wierd (just here?), because I don't really think
that Salinger wanted Buddy to be an omniscient narrator, even
if Buddy himself thought he was. I think Salinger wanted to
give us the story of the Glasses through a very slanted window,
so we would love them before we began to think about them--which,
if that is the case, Salinger achieved. But then when the time
comes to think about them, things become very complicated, since
just because Buddy tells his stories with complete love, he doesn't
necessarily tell them with complete honesty--which he himself=20
stresses in Seymour: An Introduction.
Maybe you=B4ve discussed this more than enough (I just recently =
subscribed) - but in =B4Seymour: An Introduction=B4 the narrator states =
that the remaining sisters and brothers criticized Buddy for the fact =
that the Seymour of APDFB reminded them more of the narrator himself =
than of Seymour. And Buddy admits that this is true, where he gives the =
impression of writing with a maximum of authenticity. Therefore it seems =
at least to me rather impossible to tell why Seymour killed himself on =
the ground of APDFB. This =B4why do you stare at my feet=B4-stuff =
doesn=B4t fit to Seymour at all. It seems much more plausible to me, =
what you write Brendan, that Seymour loved the world too much (including =
women in elevators starring at men with bare feet) for a holy man. The =
Seymour in the elevator is a Buddy in disguise with all his hatred on =
the world.
Kirsten
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