Subject: Re: New ending for CITR
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 02:05:30 GMT
I pretty well thought it was a complete failure too. The person writing
doesn't really understand Holden or his voice (he wouldn't have called
Phoebe "Old Phoebe," and Holden didn't make parenthetical comments
anywhere in Catcher, I don't think...he digressed, but he didn't make
parenthetical comments). I really don't see how changing the ending of
Catcher to a suicide somehow makes the book any more interesting or the
ending more exciting, either. That demand, by itself, demonstrates a
pretty shallow reading of Catcher. The "new ending" seemed like an
exercise in futility to me, and I feel a bit embarrassed on behalf of
the author...
Jim
kendra brack wrote:
>
> I didn't think any of what he/she wrote even remotely echoed anything holden
> would ever say or do. I find it quite disconcerting for someone to interpret
> the book in that fashion. It was as if he/she skimmed it, decided for some
> reason it needed more action, as most do, then tried much, much too hard to
> make it sound like holden, and failed miserably. Did anyone think it was
> accurate in any sense? I'm curious.
>
> ~kendra
>
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