Re: I luv Holden

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>>Holden doesn't have such extravagant delusions, so I could be
>> wrong.
>
>How do we know?  What's the scope of Holden's delusions, if he has
>any?   How can we be certain (even though as readers we are, after all,
>certain) that Allie isn't an invention of Holden's?  There is really no
>way of securing the veracity of a fictional character's fictional
>narrative.  
>
> 
>-- 
>Matt Kozusko 

That's taking it all a bit far, I think. If you say Holden could have 
been making Allie up, we have no reason to believe anything Holden says 
or anything any fictional character says. While characters do have their 
own motives, etc... I don't think it makes sense to doubt something like 
that.

~Valerie~

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