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: >20 > > 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... >20 > Which is one of the reasons I found his work so interesting...20 >20 > > 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... >20 > 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.. >20 > Musycian@aol.com wrote: >20 > > 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 >20 > Very well put...20 >20 > On a slightly different note, IB4ll say my favourite female character is= the20 > girl from "Just before the War with the Eskimos"...20 >20 > Kim Abra >20 >20