Re: Meeting Joyce Maynard
June Kitzman (ki1634ju@uscolo.edu)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:43:43 -0600 (MDT)
I do not think that Maynard's mother is particually dumb. nor is Joyce
because Mr.Salinger wants to capture innocence and the only way in his
life would be through innocence but when he finds Maynard to be as Phony
as
everyone else and her innocence only in the wrapping of the Abc dress
and not in the inner self where her inner self was already tinged with the
ashes of
those needing to be recognized..
then he knows it is to late .. she was only materialistic, self denying
and tinged with inner ashes of the world destructive ploys that want you
to rid of the authentic self ... Salinger is wise..
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> > In listening to Ms. Maynard read, it became increasingly clear her anger
> > at her alcoholoic father was focused on Mr. Salinger...probably then and
> > seemingly now.
>
> I'm glad someone else noticed that - it seemed to me some really weird,
> Oepidal stuff was happening there - her mother dressing her up in the dress
> with the ABCs on it was particularly creepy. I imagine also that Maynard
> has - just like us - turned the real man Salinger into a collection of
> different things, mainly a projection of her own mind. I think by studying
> Salinger and his phenomena we tend to learn and reveal a lot about
> ourselves.
>
> We were studying the concept of foregrounding in Postmodernism yesterday -
> we were using the Starr report as our basis (have you heard Ms Lewinski is
> at our sunny shores by the way?) - certain aspects were censored - but
> *after* they had already been disclosed (i.e. `cigar' was altered to
> `object') - which had the effect of drawing attention to the thing rather
> than detracting from it. I wonder if Salinger is aware of a similar
> phenomena?
>
> Camille
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