Re: Muriel Fedder = Oona O'Neill?
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 12:43:10 +1000
It's always interesting to speculate on such things, but there is a great
danger in simply reading everything an author writes as autobiography. If
you read further into the Hamilton biography (and I dip into that self
centred hatchet job as little as possible) you'll read about the search for
the `basis' for Sybil from `Bananafish'. You have to be selective in
reading such evidence in the author's real life; besides, there is just as
much possibility that he takes from his relationship with his first wife or
any number of other relationships, or none at all. Parallels, yes maybe,
but duplicates - tricky ground.
Camille Scaysbrook
verona_beach@geocities.com
THE ARTS HOLE
@ http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> I've spent part of my day reading the Ian Hamilton biography and have a
> question.
>
> Apparently JDS spent his time in the early 40s trying to get the
> attentions of Oona, only to be dumped for Charlie Chaplin.
>
> Could his real life expieriences with Oona, be the bases for Seymour and
> Muriel's relationship?
>
> There are very intresting parralels betweeb the relationships.