Re: Quiet list? there's always

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:35:34 +1000

> I think Valerie offers a fine quote to support the idea that holden is
> receiving psyhcological care.  It's quite likely the problem holden is
> dealing with is learning to deal with Allie's death...

There's a fascinating book I studied at university called ... well, I won't
tell you the title in case any of you get to read it. But it's about a
woman who has always had this vague sense of loss; who has always had
trouble in relationships etc. To cut a long story short, everything is put
in perspective at the end (the *very* end, literally the last sentence!),
when she suddenly realises that the death of her father is at the root of
it all - something that had only been mentioned in passing only once or
twice in the whole novel. It puts everything in the whole story into
perspective. To me TCIR is similar, but without that final ionising
sentence.

Camille 
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