Re: Camille vs. Jim, round Three :)]

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>> heh, ok, but do we have a reason to think Salinger intended that effect? 
>> I think Bananafish was the first Glass family story published, so imagine
>> what you'd think if you read that story not knowing anything about
>> Seymour but what was in it?
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>> Did Salinger say somewhere he intended that?
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>> Jim
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>  I think that he DID intend the reader to think that Seymour was possibly
>going to shoot Muriel before turning the gun on himself. The whole
>discussion with Muriel and her Mother ...talking about Seymour and his
>mental problems..the psychiatrist, the war, etc...Salinger obviously was
>trying to convey the fact that this guy has some psychological problems
>and is rather unstable.  The way he foreshadows the scene..it really
>appears that most people I know thought that Seymour was going to shoot
>Muriel.  To me, the way it seemed that Seymour was going to shoot her made
>the world of difference. If this wasn't in the story, I truly don't
>believe that the impact of the ending would have been as strong. I don't
>think that th estory would have been quite as great as it is.  Just my
>opinion.
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> Lisa 
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