Subject: Re: The Inverted Forest
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Wed May 07 1997 - 10:45:48 GMT
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
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Shannon Foskett wrote:
>
> I just recently read The Inverted Forest and I have to say it is certainly
> one of my favorites. My questions are about Ray and Corrinne's
> relationship. There is one point where the narrator tells Corrinne that
> Ray does not and will not love her. She of course is upset by this, but I
> feel she does not love him either. She is in love with an image of a 11
> year old boy. Why does Corrinne marry him? She proven herself to be a
> strong independent woman. Why does she suddenly feel she needs him
> so much?
>
> Next, why does Ray leave Corrinne for Bunny? This one really
> confuses me. It may be easy to see Bunny just as some sort of con
> artist, but I feel I may have missed some important things here. Is it the
> alcohol, the lonliness, what?
>
> Any thoughts?
> Shannon
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