Hi Camille, thanks for the greeting and answer! Do you recommend any literary critisims of Salingers works? Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:41:49 +1000 From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> Subject: Re: Chicken To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu Reply-to: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu Hi Ella, welcome (((()))) (: As for the chicken - I guess the most obvious answer is that Salinger was a good Jewist boy who was fed lots of chicken soup as a child. He tends to use it as an emblem of comfort and security - which I guess makes the end of `Just Before the War ...' even more telling. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com