Subject: Re: New ending for CITR
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 10:58:28 GMT
I've been wondering about that new book and am glad you're going to post
some notes about it some time in the future. I picked up an older version
of the same thing -- I think it has essays by Updike and other writers --
at a used book sale last weekend. I'm curious what these people have to
say about Salinger.
I don't really see the point in going after Salinger personally. It just
seems to validate his decision to tell the whole world where it can get
off.
Jim
Tim O'Connor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:43:37PM -0700, Suzanne Morine wrote:
>
> > Holden does mention wanting to jump out the window but didn't want other
> > people to stand around and look at his gory dead body (p. 104). Also, I
> > imagine that he wouldn't want to leave Phoebe without him like he is
> > without Allie and he certainly wouldn't want her to witness him killing
> > himself. (I haven't read this alternate ending in quite some time, but I
> > think that's what he does in it.)
> >
> > It's striking how often suicide comes up in the novel.
>
> In the new book WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR (which I've been intending to
> scribble up some notes on, for the list, but been prevented from doing
> by, uh, circumstances), there's an entire essay predicated on the
> existence of death and suicide obsessions in Catcher. I can't say
> honestly that I enjoyed the book tremendously, but I did like a few
> pieces in it. It may have been the overwhelming negativity toward
> Salinger, the many ad hominem attacks. But some of it was great and
> very perceptive.
>
> More when circumstances permit....
>
> --tim
>
> P.S. Belated kudos to Cecilia for her fine essay on outlookindia.com!
>
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