Re: BANANAFISH digest 10


Subject: Re: BANANAFISH digest 10
From: nately's whore (helenak@geocities.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 1997 - 18:33:33 GMT


> I wonder how many lives _The Catcher in the Rye_ has saved already, and
> how many it could have saved, if the right people had read it at the right
> time. I don't think I would be dead if I had never read it, but my life
> would certainly be different.
>
> Jon

I write this as a teenager (adulthood is fast approaching, and I don't
like it):

The thing about Catcher is, it's great to know you're not the only
person ever to feel completely like shit, but at the end, what happens
to Holden? He compromises, he's gotta go back to school, back into the
phony, crappy, ugly world.

It doesn't make you feel 'Yes, I can change things! Life CAN be great.'
It just makes you feel that no matter how hard to try to reject it,
you're still a part of humanity, you start 'missing' people. It's not
going to go away, or get any better.

And as for suicide, if you're going to kill yourself, you're going to
kill yourself. You're not going to harbour a wish to survive because of
a fictional character from a book set in the fifties (?) who, in the
end, is STILL getting harrassed about whether or not he's going to apply
himself at school.

But that's just my two cents, just little me, no college degree, no
thesis, just MTV and a bottle of coke...

:helena

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