Re: Teddy
LOBSTER911@aol.com
Sun, 09 May 1999 12:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
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 >>
I think the question here is which is the obvious option? Is there a point
(e.g. after reading the first eight stories) where we so quickly accept that
Salinger will have hidden symbolism that taking the literal as accurate is
the not so obvious answer?
-MW