Subject: Re: Salinger characters as role models?
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Sat Jun 14 1997 - 17:48:18 GMT
Rod Lobaugh wrote:
>
> >
> > What were Holden's mistakes? Seymour's? (Not suicide, please.) Could
> > any conscious action on either character's part have altered their
> > demise? Have you learned anything from these stories?
> >
> Whoa Steve...go for it there big guy.
>
>I don't think suicide is a positive thing though, but that was (in regards to
> the view I am poseing, just trying to see this view point shaped out
> since I think people do believe this, quite possibly me but I'm not
> sure) the symptom of the disease.
Sorry, Rob. Your earlier posts read as though you may have formed some
kind of opinion. I too am searching. Stuck in mythology right
now...loving everything Joseph Campbell....Wondering if Holden's
unequipped journey couldn't be a tragic reflection of society's
seemingly confident dismissal of ritual, rites of passage.
-- Steve Gallagher sgallagher@lasersedge.net http://www.lasersedge.net -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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