Subject: Charlotte
From: John Rauschenberg (johnr@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 01 1997 - 22:19:30 GMT
I read RHTRBC last night and pondered for a while the puzzle of Seymour
throwing a rock at Charlotte because, as Buddy explains, she was so
beautiful. I can't come up with a very satisfactory explanation. All I
can think of right now is that she was so beautiful that Seymour simply
couldn't handle it; it hurt him. Or maybe the fact that she was very
physically beautiful distracted from the inner qualities that Seymour
should be concerned with as a "horse-buyer." What do you guys think?
By the way, Ron Rosenbaum, the author of the Esquire article, is also the
author of the two articles I mentioned earlier (one contained a
reinterpretation of Catcher, the other discusses Hapworth's publication).
John
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