Re: refreshing opp., hop, skip, jump!

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:04:14 -0700 (PDT) 

Your argument has merit.  Though, as a side note, my brother, right-handed, 
shot himself with his left.  I've always thought that a bit odd.

Thor


>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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