Subject: Re: The Inverted Forest
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Wed May 07 1997 - 12:41:28 GMT
On Wed, 07 May 1997 08:45:48 -0600 (MDT) bananafish@cassatt.Mass-USR.COM wrote:
>Sannon, Inversted Forest is one of my favorites too--in some ways I think
>Salinger has made Eliot's Wasteland more powerful than eliot ever could!
>
>My guess is that corrinne loves ray ford because he's an artist--she knows
>he the real poet in her life and has known that since she was a child.
>Her attraction to him, I think has less to do with dependence and more to
>do with how differences support each other...ultimately Ray Ford chooses
>bunnie because he can't make the differences between corrinne and him work
>for his poetry...in other words, art is not very polite or clean and our
>"dirty roots" are more important in the act of creation than park
>avenue/columbia worlds...will
>
but ray doesn't write at all when he's with bunnie. ray's only refuge from his
mother was his poetry and corrinne pulled him out of that refuge into her park
avenue world. outside of his poetry, the only thing he knew was his abusive
mother, who parallels bunnie in many ways.--matt
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