Re: through a Glass darkly

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In a message dated 98-01-18 16:36:54 EST, you write:

<< The New York that Mr Salvaggio portrays is indeed a 
 	stressful one - but it's not quite the privileged environment 
 	of good schools & glamorous jobs which most of Salinger's 
 	characters enjoy.  I can't offhand recall any of his protagonists 
 	seriously worried about finding work, or having enough money 
 	or being unattractive or having to face a wasting illness.  
 	Their troubles are the troubles of the greatly favoured.
 >>
No one ever said Salinger was a realist. Go read Chekhov. The point of the
stories has got nothing to do with watching Holden grow up and get a goddamned
carreer...If we want that, we'd be reading Upton Sinclairs "The Jungle," for
the love of god. 
Salingers literature, I agree, is one step above "realist" because that isn't
the point of the stories. The point of the stories is magic. 
I think you're all just jealous cuz you muss up your hair before entering a
room. :)

-ecas

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