Subject: Re: Styron medicine chest inventory
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 21:57:18 GMT
I'd tend to agree with Tim on this one and say it sure sounds like Zooey
to me (thanks for the Biltmore Hotel stuff, btw).
I'm sure this has come up over and over again, but Sean Connery's
character in "Finding Forrester" is terribly reminiscent of JD, isn't
it?
My latest Salinger reading is Margaret Salinger's autbio -- Dream
Catcher. Imagine a biography written by a Jewish mother that likes to
gossip about her family. It has all those strengths and weaknesses. I
think she overemphasizes Salinger's (presumed) victimization by
antisemitism as the motivation for his hatred of academia, but at the
same time her accounts are remarkably telling of how widespread and
institutionalized antisemitism was becoming here in the US in the years
leading up to WWII. I haven't gotten far because I find myself getting
annoyed with the book sometimes...the author's asides are sometimes
facile and her voice can be grating. But...it's very much worth
reading, esp. if you're a Salinger freak.
Jim
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> In Styron's "Sophies Choice" he writes " I put the book aside and moseyed
> into the tiny bathroom, where I began to take inventory of the articles I
> had placed in the medicine chest. (Years later I would be facinated to
> discover a hero of J D Salinger duplicating my ceremony, but I claim
> priority.) "
> Is this Zooey he is writing about or who?
>
> Paul
>
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