RE: First Catcher memories?
MSLOSEK@smcvt.edu
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:55:29 -0500
Hi all,
I'm new to this news group but have been reading salinger since i was
16. this discussion of first catcher memories, or catcher memories in
general, is very interesting to me. the first time i read catcher i was
16. i felt in touch with holden because i was the same age as he was
during the action of the story. then when i read it again at 17 i still
felt that i could connect with him because he is telling the story at
age 17. now that i am 18, i feel kind of strange reading it over again.
it's not that i can't connect with the character anymore just because
i'm a year older. it's like growing up with a friend and having that
friend stay the same age as you grow older. i know this may sound like
i'm making myself out to be over the hill, but these are just my
impressions of catcher.
>mike