Subject: Re: RE: father, dear father, come home with me now ....
JLSnoop@aol.com
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 19:12:44 GMT
In a message dated 9/5/00 10:14:30 AM, jbesiada@nettel.com writes:
<<I find it almost saddening to learn that
there is some history behind the bananafish tale and that his hatred for
formal education in the ivies may be completely based on anti-Semitism. I
guess I want to believe that JD wrote fiction in the manner and for the
reasons I wanted him to: to give me, the reader, a gray outline to which I
could apply my own beliefs and experiences.
>>
I don't think it really matters what anyone's writing was based on. As a
kid, I apply my own beliefs to Salinger's writing like you say, and long
after this biography, other kids will apply theirs. And I'm sure we will all
get something different out if it. Salinger, like all writers, wanted to
evoke emotion through the common idea of exclusion. If the way he was able to
do this was by drawing from anti-Semitism, what difference does this make?
..Jake..
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