Re: Seymour's death - another view

Subject: Re: Seymour's death - another view
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 01:17:02 GMT

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   Dear Scottie,

   Thanks so much for presenting the perspective of your son Mark.
   It is doubling startling in the way that in the first place it fits
   like a custom made key, and secondly that in how many years of discussing
   this story I do not recall anyone viewing it in terms of pure
   post-combat reaction. I think I might be a little more certain that
   you (plural) have hit the bull's eye had the story been structured
   more like For Esme.. which really brings the war into the foreground,
   whereas in A Perfect Day.. there is only the hint, as though Salinger
   expected everyone to be as perceptive as your son, or perhaps to be as
   familiar with this type of breakdown, which might have been the case
   forty-plus years ago.

   Thanks again,
   Mattis
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