Re: Honeymoon?


Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 01:29:55 GMT


Bruce wrote:
>... all three think
>Seymour and Muriel are on their *honeymoon*.
>
>I don't read any *honeymoon* into it.
>
>Have I missed something?

No, they've been married for several years by that point, as the story takes
place after the end of the war. I don't think that one would know that going
strictly by Bananafish, though. One would need to be familiar with RHTRBC
to make that judgement, and it hadn't been written yet. I suppose that it's
a little ambiguous in the story, but there's one or two clues in Bananafish
that Seymour and Muriel have been married for some time.

For on what kind of honeymoon does the blushing bride tote along magazine
articles on how sex can be fun-- or hell? Muriel also refers to the fact
that she and Seymour had been there before, during the war. Not exactly
something a girl would admit to her mother if she hadn't been a Mrs. Glass
at the time, checking at the hotel desk for messages.

I guess that it sort of gives off the scent of a second honeymoon, a desire
to get away together again to where it all began, and that's where the
confusion comes in. But no, definitely not a honeymoon.

Regards,
Cecilia.
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