Subject: RE: uncollected stories
From: lray (lray@centenary.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 03:59:32 GMT
dear all,
here is a link to 22 salinger stories online:
http://www.angelfire.com/nt/vetoed/
i am new to this list and cant quite understand why everyone is constantly
arguing, and not about what this list is supposed to be about or what i was
under the impression that this list was for. i am a 19 year old college
student, but i feel like the mature one on this list because i feel like
salinger and his works have almost completely taken the back seat since i have
been on this list the past two weeks or so. is it always like this?
how about a conversation starter like what impact did catcher have on everyone
the first time they read it?
personally, i felt so similar to holden that it was frightening. thoughts
about a superficial society, suicide, not fitting in, having no one to talk
to, etc, etc, basic teenage feelings. i felt that there was a beauty to
holden because he had retained the ability children have for seeing the TRUTH
in things and not allowing oneself to be swept up by all the crap and still
being able to recognize things around him. it is after two and i am not
articulating well, but im sure that these thoughts make sense to someone who
has read catcher and felt like "here is someone that i understand." salinger
said so much in catcher and it is sad that 50 years later things still havent
changed, if anything they are worse.
-Levi
lray@centenary.edu
http://personal.centenary.edu/~lray/
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