Subject: Sergeant X
From: Joshua Stott (jstott@bigplanet.net)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 15:50:23 GMT
Scout Thompson wrote:
> Was "For Esme With Love and Squalor" about Seymours "breakdown" during the war?
> Since Buddy has written all the 9 stories, essentially, am I alone in the assumption that
> Seymour was X?
<snipped from http://www.salinger.org/characters/sergeantx.html>
He's not Seymour.
Seymour is dead by 1950, when Esme sends Sergeant X the wedding
invitation.
Besides this compelling reason, there are other pieces of evidence:
Sergeant X has an older brother; Seymour does not.
Sergeant X's mother-in-law's last name is Grencher; Seymour's
mother-in-law's last name is Fedder.
</snip>
Nor would I say that Buddy is necessarily (in fact I would say that I'm
quite sure that he isn't) the author of each of the 9 stories.
Josh
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