Re: family
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:37:04 -0800 (PST)
---Maria_Brandt@vsl.com wrote:
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> (ObSal: wasn't zooey a bit old to be still living at home in f&z?)
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> :helena kim
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> helena at netsoc dot tcd dot ie
> 'the church is near, but the road is icy.
> the bar is far, but i will walk carefully.'
> - russian proverb
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> That question made me think about something. How do you, as people
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> UK, North America, and Australia, regard the families in Salinger's
> stories? I already said that I am from South America (specifically,
> Venezuela), but I've been living in Canada for a year now and I
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> but compare both cultures. In my country families are very close
knit and
> people leave their parents home only when they are about to get
married
> (around 24-26 years old). It seems to me that the families portrayed
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> Salinger's stories are like that, more like clans.
> mc
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> In the Glass family though it seems as if none of the family member
are ever all together, someone is always gone. Buddy was a recluse,
Seymour was living seperately but eventually killed himself, the twins
fought in the war and I think 1 of them died, Booboo lived with her
own family, Franny was away at college, and Zooey seemed to be the
only Glass child that was home all the time. This seems to be American
to me because families with adult children are usually not all
together very often. Also the Caulfield family is not all that
together either. Holden was always being sent away to school and the
parents were never really present.
-Liz Friedman
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