Re: refreshing opp., hop, skip, jump!
Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
i have a lot of the same questions, but i have, after a bit of
consideration, come to the very surface conclusion that maybe salinger is
having seymour use his right hand to shoot himself for simple consistancy:
in Seymour: an introduction, at some point buddy says that seymour was
righthanded, and so it would follow that he would naturally use that hand.
maybe, that's it, just because salinger is creating charactors who i almost
forget aren't real, and a right handed person simply would use that hand. on
the analytical side, one way (of many, i'm far beyond sure) it could be
explained is based on the assumption that the right also represents what is
"normal" and in someway just what society believes. if you use that, it is
as if that force that is killing him, excuse my ignorance in answering this
without rereading the story, because i don't have the book here right now,
but what i have been thinking about this lately is that the part with sybil
showed that the intellegence of childhood that he clearly values is
corrupted by society (my own little thoughts) which is represented by the
bananafish bit, (i would get into this, but i'm trying really hard not to
diverge), and the bit in the elevator shows pure alienation from society. in
saying something true seymour (or anyone, really) is considered insane or
something like it. so, when he kills himself it is not really him, but this
society that is so different and he can simply not function in. by the way,
i just want to mention that if it seems like i'm making a lot of assumptions
that i shouldn't, i already wrote a paper that proved a bunch of this stuff,
so i'm not jsut making it all up, i'm just working based on those
assumptions. i'm sorry this is a bit incoherent, not a strong point at the
moment, but i find all this very interesting, and i would like to hear what
other people think.
Catherine
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