Thor, you bring up a good point about salinger. I have never had a suicide in my family, but there is a different subject I would like to address. In Catcher In the Rye, this guy starts "making the moves" on Holden while he's sleeping. I had a similar thing happen to me. No...I had the EXACT same thing happen to me. Exactly! Either the dude read Catcher in the Rye and then started "keepin' it real" while I was sleeping, or Salinger had someone do this to him. It's definitely not fictional. It's absolutely too accurate to be made up. - Adam In reply to: I've read every story except Seymour: Intro. I'm still 20 pages away from it. In Bananafish, Am I the only one who is disturbed by Seymour? The first time reading, I felt the nausea in my gut long before the surprise ending. There is something fundamentally WRONG here. The same is true of Catcher, BTW. It is disturbing to me. My brother committed suicide, & I'm telling you, the intriguing thing about Salinger's suicide families is that they are REAL. There must have been such asn incident close to him or there is no way that he could know how people react & change. What I'm saying is: Salinger is good because he writes the truth. Rambling, sorry. Thor