Re: 9 stories-eskimos
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:25:55 +1100
> Is eric in anyway like an Easter chick?
I've thought about this a lot, too. Eskimos was for me the most
unfathomable nine story (? (:) the first time I read it. But ... we've
talked before about how chicken in Salinger tends to all come back to the
old Jewish mother serving chicken soup as a healing and nurturing gesture.
I think maybe the chicken sandwich is a symbol of hope and redemption (just
like Easter is) but Ginnie just throws it away because somehow there's no
reason she can consume it; it's already sullied, just like the Easter chick
was.
My guess is as good as anyone's ...
Camille
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> > I just read "Just Before the War with the Eskimos". Does anyone out
there
> > understand the last line. "A few years before, it had taken her three
days
> > to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the
> > bottom of her wastebasket." This is my first time reading it and I
will
> > read it again before my class with Will but as of now I'm not
> > understanding it too well. Have any insights?
> > akemi
> >
> >