Re: Antolini: Life Imprisonment
the.tourist@excite.com
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:58:33 -0800 (PST)
Liz wrote:
> Like many adolescent boys Holden was a little
> homophobic due to his own insecurities. He over
> reacted to Antolini touching him -which was just
> a gesture done out of sympathy and concern-not
> anything sexual.
That's a great interpretation--one I wish I could fully agree with. But as
of now I personally am just not convinced. The stroking of the hair seems
just a little *too* intimate to be categorically justified as sympathy and
concern. My own belief, for the moment, is that the Antolini passage was
written intentionally ambiguous, and we are meant to sit here and argue
about it.
--Brendan
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