Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
From: midge immington (midgeimmington@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 11:16:26 EDT
Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
My point was not that the number was absolutely insignificant, but we need
to consider the possibility that it may be. And that, if we are going to
make associations, they can't be random or simply guided by our own
imagination -- Salinger himself would have to give us reasons for that
association. Sticking to the context of the story, the number 6 doesn't
seem to recur, so it's not given any significance that way.
***
Hi!
"I thought they'd never stop. I never saw so many tigers."
"There were only six," Sybil said.
"*Only* six!" said the young man. "Do you call that *only*?"
[two pages later Seymour says]:
"Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas."
[next page]:
"I just saw one."
"Saw what, my love?"
"A bananafish."
"My God, no!" said the young man. "Did he have any bananas in his mouth?"
"Yes," said Sybil. "Six."
The young man suddenly picked up one of Sybil's wet feet, which were drooping over the end of the float, and kissed the arch.
***
Something's going on!
--Midge
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