Re: New subscriber...
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 08:00:16 -0600 (MDT)
The early, uncollected stories (see
http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/index.html for their listing) show
women more centrally (Elaine & Lois Taggett),as well as show "glass
prototypes" in relationships...I think Salinger's later work is focused on
issues of faith, art and family in ways that make m/f relationships less
central...but I think it might be wrong to consider Salinger blind to
women or at least young girls in the way he makes Phoebe and Esme almost
"heroic" in their abilities to understand and offer love...will20
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 Musycian@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 98-10-04 16:07:04 EDT, you write:
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> << Hehe, this ALWAYS happen... In my country (Denmark) Kim is a male name
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> So IB4m male... Sorry, probably should have mentioned it since it=B4s n=
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> first time IB4ve experienced this mistake...
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> But his characters seem to be uncomfortable around women... In "The
> Catcher...",20
> as I remember, the only female who is alright is HoldenB4s little siste=
r...
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> because he doesnB4t have to pretend around her...=20
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> And if I remember correctly, the only male Glass-child with a girlfriend
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> Seymour - and that certainly didnB4t turn out well either... >>
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> Hi there. Well I AM female and I noticed that they're all uncomfortable a
round
> women except he doesn't seem to make them out to be worse than males, onl
y
> just that his male characters get frustrated when they're attracted to fe
males
> physically and they know the females don't have a clue about what's going
on
> in their head. There is always Jane however, from Catcher.Holden makes
> references to her a lot only she never actually appears in the story whic
h I
> found interesting.
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