Subject: Re: Salinger characters as role models?
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Sat Jun 14 1997 - 13:58:57 GMT
Rod Lobaugh wrote:
>" by watching both holden and seymore fall it teaches we
> who relate ourselve's to their characters to learn how not-to-deal
> with society." Is pedestaling Holden and/or Seymour as individuals
> and emulateing them the "most" valid interpretation. Or is seeing
> their failure something for us to learn from so as not to make the
> same mistakes?
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?
-- SGallagher
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