Uncle Webb

Rebecca McCallum (remc@uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:02:51 -0500 (EST)

>From: Bethany.M.Edstrom@Dartmouth.EDU (Bethany M. Edstrom)
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Water and the Glasses
>Message-ID: <6941882@blitzen.Dartmouth.EDU>


>I'm curious, though, about "Uncle Webb." I assumed you must have made a
>mistake, that you meant either Walt or Waker. But I looked in the story
>and Boo
>Boo does tell Lionel that the goggles belonged to Uncle Webb and Uncle
>Seymour.
>Does anyone know the geneology?

Bethany - 
  I have a vague memory that Webb is actually Buddy's real name.  But at
the moment (away from home and unable to look in any of my Salinger
books), I don't know where exactly I got that idea from.  Anyone else know
if that might be true?
                                   - Rebecca