Subject: Re: holden, et al. vs. the glasses
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 14:02:08 EDT
Kim --
Nice having Salinger discussed again :). For my part, I'm pretty happy
with most of the Glass stories. "Teddy" is flawed in that it seems almost
didactic or propagandistic, but only slightly so. I've read worse ;).
Most of what I'm about to say I've repeated a few times on the list
already, but you haven't heard it, soooo... :)
When I started reading some of the unpublished Caulfield stories I got the
distinct impression that Salinger tried to do with the Caulfield family
what he did do with the Glass family -- but he made the family too limited
(in size and personality), so I think he wound up with nowhere to go,
except to start again (Glass family). I think they fulfill his intent and
for the most part work.
I can't stand Hapworth. I haven't read it all, though, so probably should
give it a good read then decided I can't stand it again :). It's
completely unbelievable that a 7 year old (or so) could write/think like
that, even if Seymour is supposed to be something like a Teddy character.
I think Salinger loved his characters a bit too much in this case to allow
them to be human.
Jim
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