Re: real life experience
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 10:25:24 -0700 (PDT)
If you're referring to his teacher, I don't think he WAS making sexual
moves. I think it was a tender man, perhaps a former catcher himself, &
Holden's paranoia/teen homosexual panic misunderstood it.
My opinion,
because I also was there,
Thor
>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
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