Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: Otto Sell (o.sell@telda.net)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 12:28:48 GMT
Cecilia,
I guess you're right. They've married in 1942 (Raise high the Roofbeam) and
the holidays are in 1948 (Bananafish), though this is not necessarily an
evidence there they're *not* on honeymoon.
Wouldn't it be possible that during the war a honeymoon simply wasn't
possible?
I pretty much agree with your "secong honeymoon"-description.
But where does "Muriel refer to the fact that she and Seymour had been
there before, during the war?"
She says in the phonecall that they could not get the same room as *before*
the war. Sounds more to me as if Muriel's mother knows the place, as if
Muriel's family has been holidaying here before the war.
Otto
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cecilia Baader <ceciliaann@hotmail.com>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
>
> 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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