RE: The Inverted Forest

--- Hester <harvardditz@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Seymour presented in Raise High
> is arguably the
> most tragic and saddest of all of his portrayals.
> It is also the most
> significant because it is the only place (among the
> stories published in
> book form) that we see Seymour's words "untainted"
> by Buddy's voice,
> through Seymour's diary. The Seymour in the diary is
> hardly happy
> despite his "I'm a paranoiac in reverse" statement.

i'm not sure if the tragic/saddest aspect might be
read back into the diary since we know how the
marriage turned out.

but i would say one senses a vulnerability in the
diary. that seymour admits he'll need to undergo
analysis for a slight overhaul. (but we then have
zooey's remark about what analysis did to seymour, and
this might be reading back too.)

if i recall correctly, doesn't seymour in the diary
say that muriel is trying to teach him to smile more?
now THIS gives me pause. this doesn't make sense with
'people plotting me make happy'.

(jim, 'raise high' is about events in 1942; the
suicide is in 1948.)

kim

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Received on Wed Mar 19 12:25:52 2003