RE: quentin and seymour
Baader, Cecilia (cbaader@casecorp.com)
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:50:33 -0500
Oh, dearest, darling, delicious Quentin. Quentin who so loved Caddy =
that he
couldn't recover from the shock of her sin, Quentin whose intelligence =
kept
him separate from everyone else, Quentin whose offers of help to =
wandering
children get him in trouble.
I can see how you might think that he shares some qualities with =
Seymour,
Rev. Bob. Quentin strikes me as a man who dreamily picks his way =
through
his days. (Dreamily, you understand, =E0 la Richard Ford's Frank =
Bascombe...
thanks to whomever recommended _The Sportswriter_.) =20
Off the top of my head, I can list a few similarities:
1. The day that Quentin jumps from the bridge has the same pervading
unreality as the day in Bananafish. =20
2. Quentin becomes the savior-guide of a child that he meets during =
the
course of that day. (I'm foggy on whether it's a boy or a girl; all I
remember is a bread shop and a police station.)
3. Quentin is surrounded by, guided by, well-meaning sophisticates, =
who he
does not shake off because he has ceased to care what happens to him.
It's been a while since I've read _The Sound and the Fury_, so I'm not
exactly coming up with a wealth of information. I can see, however, =
how you
might see the connection. How does your list differ? What made you =
think
of the connection?=20
Regards,
Cecilia.
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:15:47 -0400
> From: "rev. bob pigeon" <sid-vicious@mindspring.com>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: quentin and seymour
> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19990831181547.006d8dac@mindspring.com>
>=20
> does anyone else think that quentin compson from the sound=20
> and the fury
> seems to be a very salingeresque character, and has many=20
> similarities with
> seymour?