Subject: RE: A Polite Request
From: Becky Spiro Green (becky@HUNTINGTON.ORG)
Date: Wed Jun 18 1997 - 14:58:41 GMT
Hello Rob in Aberdeen--
Salinger's Glass Family Stories as a Composite Novel is my favorite
piece of Salinger criticism. Looking for Glass family members was a
great joy the first time I read Nine Stories, and it didn't take me long
to realize I was reading the Glass pieces as a composite novel--
looking for connections, devising timelines, trying to see the larger
picture. When I ran into Alsen's book (entirely by accident in 1989),
it was just what I wanted.
I was most struck by Alsen's view of Seymour. He is the hero of
most of the individual stories, and a hero to his younger siblings.
But his negative influence becomes clearer in the composite-novel
interpretation.
Becky
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