Re: Seymour The Coward


Subject: Re: Seymour The Coward
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:24:44 EST


In a message dated 3/1/00 12:19:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
citycabn@gateway.net writes:

<< Would a number of bfish radically revise their opinions re the Seymour _of
 all the Glass Stories_ if Seymour, on March 18, 1948, at the age of
 thirty-one, while vacationing down in Florida with his wife, had served as
 lunch for Jaws?
 
 Yes, Zooey says S & B made freaks out of himself and Franny. But remember,
 Franny's "salvation" comes via the Fat Lady was which _Seymour's_ parable.
 
 Seymour is not a coward.
 
 --Bruce >>

I would revise my opinion of Seymour if he had been eaten by a shark, yes.
And I don't think he was necessarily a coward all his life. I think he
succumbed to an impulse...an impulse he'd been carrying around for a long
time, but still an impulse.

Jim
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