homer and catcher

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When I was in high school, i didn't believe in my ability to comprehend a
book enough, so i would always buy a copy of cliff notes and read each
chapter summary after i had read the chapter of the book.  

I'm home for the first time in two years.  I was going through and old box
and I found my catcher cliff notes.  I read a bit and found it interesting
that dear cliff (or whoever)thought The catcher in the rye was like Homer's
Odyssey (or whatever mythological epic had Ullyses running around trying to
get home ( can't remember if that was the Odyssey exactly right now but I'm
pretty sure, would bet on it, that it was)

Anyway, I wonder what you bananafishers think of this rather....lofty
comparison.  The guys point was that Holdens "escapade" was him trying to
get hoe but kept getting lost, physically and spiritually, on the way.  I
find it interesting, but I don't think I agree (for one simplistic thing,
holden didn't even want to go home).

What do you folks think?


-rod 





"Take this emotion, make it emotion...we got a word for"
                       -from "we got a word for" by Starflyer 59

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