Re: New subscriber...
Abra (abra@post6.tele.dk)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:30:46 +0200
WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> I think Salinger's later work is focused on
> issues of faith, art and family in ways that make m/f relationships less
> central...
Which is one of the reasons I found his work so interesting...
> 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...
I don´t subscribe to the opinion that Salinger Glass... I´ve heard that more
than once... My point is, that Salinger isn´t blind to women (as you also say)
but his characters have problems dealing with these kinds of relationship...
Musycian@aol.com wrote:
> Hi there. Well I AM female and I noticed that they're all uncomfortable around
> women except he doesn't seem to make them out to be worse than males, only
> just that his male characters get frustrated when they're attracted to females
> physically and they know the females don't have a clue about what's going on
> in their head.
Very well put...
On a slightly different note, I´ll say my favourite female character is the
girl from "Just before the War with the Eskimos"...
Kim Abra