Subject: Re: bananafish faq
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 01 1997 - 14:51:00 GMT
helena, unless I miss my guess, we're all zen killing teddy boys to some
extent, even, repsectfully, mr. salinger himself...people are always
ruining things and one take on s's suicide could be that just when a
human is making a little progress on not ruining the glass family, he goes
and offs himself and taints (and propels via absence) his own teachings
and life. S may have been a ring ding of a guru but he wasn't perfect.
The more I think of his ability to tune into sybil's emotion's (and then
in later stories how profoundly he created and shaped his family's
sprititual energy), the more I don't understand the emotional wake S knows
his suicide must create. S is not selfish enough to be blind to muriel's
shock, nor is could he be unaware of how his family admires and needs him.
One way to see this problem is to see as his own personal zen killer!
yikes, but maybe...will
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