OT, NT, or A-poc-ryphee?
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:50:51 -0400
WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
>
> Sol was jewish, but not his wife and I think the salinger family was like
> many NY Jews at the time, asimilating and that is probably why mr.
> salinger's "jewishness" is pretty limited to a reference in "Down at the
> Dinghy" unless someone else (sonny, matt?) wants to wake upmy sleepy
> memory...will
Lots of references to Jewish-Irishness. Jewish-Catholic...I always
assumed that Jerome's mother "Miriam" was Catholic (she changed her
first name, is the rumor). Bessie is Irish (Catholic), and Budddy,
narrating "Zooey," mentions something about half-Jewish, half-Irish
children.
Whatever the case, Holden, along with most of the Glasses, is perfectly
Catholic. I doubt anybody on the other side of Anglican (Scottie,
maybe, excepted) was ever able really to relate to him. And in the
South, which is heavily Baptist, people can't even pronounce the title
of the book.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu