Subject: Re: Why Holden Appeals to Women?
From: joyce morrison (incurablejoyce@excite.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 07:49:36 GMT
> I guess the way Holden protects and befriends Phoebe would probably
appeal to women also...
it does! so despite his "madman" tendencies, tis still sweet and endearing
of him knowin' he's crazy about Phoebe.
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most girls i know had brothers who would fart on their hands
> and wouldn't be seen in public with them. I think it's a pretty good
find,
> will!
>
> -rob
>
>
> >From: Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu>
> >Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> >To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> >Subject: Why Holden Appeals to Women?
> >Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:35:07 +0800
> >
> >On a walk the other day, I met a young lady who took a liking to my
> >dog. As soon as she learned his name was Holden Caulfield, the light
> >bulb went on and we moved from the dog to the character...I learned
> >that she really identified with Holden...something I've increasingly
> >observed in females...I asked her why women seem to like Holden and
> >she said that she admires his maternal feelings...I was stopped for a
> >moment and she explained that his desire to help kids avoid falling
> >of that crazy cliff is what she meant. This seems so logical and
> >obvious but I hadn't thought of Holden as maternal. We certainly
> >don't see him getting much mothering in Catcher...in fact, I might
> >argue there's an intentional lack of mothering in his experience in
> >the book. Funny...Salinger dedicates the book to his mother and
> >Holden is at least seen by some as having maternal feelings, but I'm
> >now seeing how his story can be read as the sad tale of a lack of
> >maternal insight...waddaya think? will
> >--
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