Re: seymour
randy royal (randyr@mailhub.jaxnet.com)
Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:15:29 +0000
dan: from a quick rehash, this seems to be the easiest explanation.
there is no "right" way to anaylize stories, espaecially ones as
duboius as a perfect day for banafish, but you always gotta give your
proof.
cya~ randy
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Dan Kissane
> dfk@oneonta.edu
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