Re: Teddy
John Page (JHPAGE@worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 09 May 1999 02:16:46 -0500
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <the_globe@hotmail.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Teddy
I wrote:
>>Hmm, I've always thought that scream came from his sister.
>> Jared
Camille Wrote:
>This seems to me part of an exclusionary tactic that I've begun to notice a
>lot in Salinger's fiction. He has always been very concerned about who Gets
>in and who Doesn't Get It - literally separating the phonies from the
>non-phonies. It seems that Salinger has an inbuilt Phony Detector in many
of
>his stories - in the form of the obvious answer and the not so obvious
>answer. It's as if he can separate his readership into the haves and have
>nots by seeing who chooses which option - to wit:
>
>Franny is pregnant/Franny is undergoing a spiritual crisis
>Seymour is a pedophile/Seymour is undergoing a spiritual crisis
>Mr Antolini is a pedophile/Holden ... you get the picture
>Teddy pushed Booper into the pool/Teddy himself dies in the pool,
justifying
>all he has just said.
Maybe my last statement was misunderstood, maybe not.. But, what I
meant was
I thought that scream came from Booper upon seeing Teddy dead (dying,
falling) in the empty swimming pool. Just wanted to be sure. -Jared