Re: New subscriber...
June Kitzman (ki1634ju@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 15:46:22 -0600 (MDT)
Salinger's blindness is not that women are not central to his writing
because when he makes them central to the male characters he begins to
impy that he looses a little of the creation his characters are capable of
only is isolation and/or alienation. In fact those who take away from the
creative abilities of his characters are not always women. 20
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Abra wrote:
> WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
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> > I think Salinger's later work is focused on
> > issues of faith, art and family in ways that make m/f relationships les
s
> > central...
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> Which is one of the reasons I found his work so interesting...20
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> > 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 almos
t
> > "heroic" in their abilities to understand and offer love...
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> I donB4t subscribe to the opinion that Salinger =3D Glass... I=B4ve hear=
d that more20
> than once... My point is, that Salinger isnB4t blind to women (as you al=
so say)
> but his characters have problems dealing with these kinds of relationship
2E..
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> Musycian@aol.com wrote:
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> > 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, o
nly
> > 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 goi
ng on
> > in their head.20
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> Very well put...20
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> On a slightly different note, IB4ll say my favourite female character is=
the20
> girl from "Just before the War with the Eskimos"...20
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> Kim Abra
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