>bananafish are metaphors for people who cannot purge their >emotions, they have no outlet for letting go of things. Have you all ever thought about Seymour in terms of defense mechanisms? In my opinion he doesn't really have much of any, whereas Holden (a bananafish too, at least for awhile--I like that theory) has tons and tons. >and i just thought of that medicine cabinet analogy >and i think it's damn good. Me too. >true true, but somewhere in seymour an introduction buddy (the >"narrator") states that he once wrote a story about the death of >seymour and members of the glass family said that the story was more >like buddy. or maybe the story buddy was talking about was raise >high the roof beams carpenters, i don't remember. Wasn't it that buddy had written 2 stories, described to be obviously Teddy and APDFB, that were both obliquely about Seymour but neither was accurate physically or really emotionally, but conveyed his essence, in some odd way?... Emily BTW my favorite is "Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out and for no other reason." (S:AI) What does everyone else like? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com