Subject: Re: Introduction (revised)
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 09:08:54 GMT
Jim wrote:
Which of M. Salinger's criticisms of JD do you think is
unfair? ------------------------------------------
Subjective is what I wrote. It has been a year or so since I read her book.
>From what I remember about it Peggy was very troubled and although I'm sure
her father is far from perfect, so I think is her book. I wasn't there when
these kids grew up with Salinger, Matthew Salinger was and here is what he
said about his sister's book.
Remembrance of things past -
or not
The Times, September 23rd 2000
Matt Salinger, the son of the novelist J. D. Salinger was reported this week
as having spoken out with some reluctance to oppose his sister, Peggy, in
whose memoirs she had described their father as an intimidating and abusive
man. Peggy's descriptions had resulted, allegedly, from her therapy, in
which hypnosis and 'recovered memories' apparently had played a central
part.
Whereas Peggy had reported that her father was a man who was incapable of
tying his own shoelaces, Matt described how his father had taught him how to
tie his own shoes and even to close off the end of a lace once the plastic
wore off. Matt wrote:
"My sister had often told me Gothic tales of our supposed childhood, and I -
In retrospect - made the very real mistake of allowing it, without actual
contradiction...Her version of reality, her vision, no doubt was clouded by
her own troubled mind". He added that he had grown up in, "..a very
different house, with two very different parents, from those which my sister
describes.", and also that, "Nor do I remember any instance of my father
abusing my mother. The only sometimes frightening presence I remember in the
house, in fact, was my sister"
Paul
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