Subject: Re: Salinger's Fire
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 18:09:19 GMT
>William Hochman <wh14@is9.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I wonder
>though...there seem to be too many "literature" levels for the casual
>reader to read and run.
I agree, wholeheartedly. Especially the later Glass stories, with all of
their references to Schopenhauer and Kafka and Duke Mu.
The Section Man audience that makes our friend Mr. Salinger so crazy is the
only real audience for whom he writes. Only a very few special birdwatchers
will be able to make it beyond the literature levels.
>Here's my q--shouldn't Muriel have found the gun in the luggage
>before Seymour uses it in the story? Isn't she (or her mother) going to
>snoop into every bit of Seymour's hidden life they can?
I've been considering this carefully, and I think that Muriel would have
found that gun-- unless she were really very unconcerned about the whole
thing. Muriel doesn't remember where she puts sacred gift books from her
husband. Perhaps it simply means so little to her . . . ?
But no. That doesn't seem right. Or perhaps it's the flawed Bananafish
narrative, meant to be discarded in favor of some of the truths that follow.
Interesting food for thought, though, will. I think that I shall have to
chew on it a little bit longer.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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