Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Josh Stott (jstott@bigplanet.net)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 12:46:38 GMT
I think that if it does, it's more like "taking a honeymoon" because they didn't
have a proper one when they eloped. I'd be happy to see a reference to any such
mention though.
Josh
Sean McCleary wrote:
> 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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