Subject: Re: Seymour=Soldier X?
From: George Ford (bf20455@binghamton.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 05 1997 - 21:16:46 GMT
> sergeant x always impressed me as one of salinger's characters most likely
> to reflect the author himself...will
Yes, I've always felt that as well. he stuck me as someone who, for once,
was not a Glass at all but an entirley different side of JDS. Not a
wholly dissimila eon, mind you, a different one. Let me clarify: Holden
represents, among other things, something of JDS's personality, his
dissatisfaction with many people, types of people, the movies, etc. Buddy
is JDS the wrtier, self-conscious about his style, aware of his own
wordiness and little affectations (those that we, of course, find
charming. Sgt. X, then, could be JD the veteran, irrevocably efby
the war and the squalor he has witnessed, but nonetheless retaining
the unshakable sense he has of innocence and purity in the world,
hidden as it often may be. He, in short, has emerged with his
faculties intact. fected
-
To remove yourself from the bananafish list, send the command:
unsubscribe bananafish
in the body of a message to "Majordomo@mass-usr.com".
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Mon Oct 09 2000 - 15:00:00 GMT