Subject: Re: Franny Bashing
From: georges aron (georges.aron@libertysurf.fr)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 03:57:32 GMT
Jim wrote:
> I don't quite know that you can go from "missing people" to "accepting
> people with their flaws." Do we know, for example, that had Holden been
> with Ackley again he wouldn't have just started complaining about him
being
> a moron and a phoney? I think Holden's change certainly points in this
> direction, but it's sure spelled out a lot more clearly in F&Z than it is
> in Catcher. I see more of a mood swing in Catcher than a change in
> thinking...where in F&Z I see a mood swing (and a wider one at that) along
> with a specific way of seeing the world differently...
Accepting Ackley the way he is? I'm not sure that 'accepting people with
their flaws' implies you have to enjoy definitive dorks. Even tolerance has
some limits, or it's just blindness. Unless you want to be Mother Theresa or
something...
Valérie
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