Re: seymour
Dan Kissane (dfk@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu)
Mon, 06 Oct 1997 16:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
I am new to this and it has been a while since I have read it but the
Bananfish thing is about getting in over your head. Like you get married
and get a credit card and get a good job and a house loan and then you are
living so fat
that you could not get out if you wanted to. Ya see what I mean? Then you
are trapped by your own life so to speak.
Then you can't afford to leave because you can't get out the way you came
in. Like, now you need a car and a bike is not good enough but you rode in
on a bike and a car won't get you out the gap that let the bike in.
Please don't ya'all rip me too hard cause I am telling you up front I am
new at this.
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Kristen Shahmir or Pat Burley wrote:
> This is just a general question and all of you will probably shoot me for
> asking this- but I'm just getting into Salenger- I read Catcher in the
> Rye, and then I tried Nine Stories- my question is after reading A
> perfect day for bananafish- i had never read about seymour before- i knew
> he was part of that whole "glass" clan that everyone's discussing- but
> I haven't read anything about them- Well, why did Seymour kill himself?
> Who was the girl on the beach? Who was the girl in the room? and that
> thing about banana fish, is that some analogy for something else? Pardon
> my stupidity, but do I need to have read "Seymour an Introduction" or
> something else before I can understand this? Someone please explain.
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Dan Kissane
dfk@oneonta.edu