Subject: Re: Why Holden Appeals to Women?
From: Rob Riss (sdrelist@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 14:13:50 GMT
I guess the way Holden protects and befriends Phoebe would probably appeal
to women also...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
>--
> Will Hochman
>
>Assistant Professor of English
>Southern Connecticut State University
>501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
>203 392 5024
>
>http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
>
>
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