Re: Honeymoon?

Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Sean McCleary (sean@fojar.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 01:51:38 GMT

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I could swear that in another piece of writing narrated by one of
Seymour's siblings (I'm thinking Zooey, though it may be from Seymour:
An Introduction) the narrator said that Seymour was on his honeymoon.

Sean

Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> 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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