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From: Rick Lampe (lampe@math.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 1997 - 13:43:36 GMT
Hello Bananafishers...
Can anyone comment on the significance or lack of significance in the
following:
In Franny and Zooey, Zooey takes a handkerchief and places it on his head
as he walks to Buddy's and Seymour's old room to call Franny. In
For Esme'- with Love and Squalor, Esme's little brother briefly
places a napkin on his head just before he sits down in the tea room.
Does anyone have any insight into the collective or individual significance
of these events, if there is any at all? I mean, I try not to be too
obsessive over small details like this, and I try to avoid micro-analysing,
but this one has been on my mind for a while. Also, are there other instances
of this type of thing in Salinger's work? The Laughing Man has a red poppy
petal veil, but that might be stretching things a bit much.
Rick
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