Subject: Re: John Updike
erespess@nji.com
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 22:59:57 EST
>Well, since you don't need me to cite the essay, let me suggest that
>Updike reading Salinger loving the Glass family "too much" is really the
>indicator of the text's successful illusion of love in the first
>place. To discuss a text's characters in terms of their effects on
>realities is to acknowledge a literary power. I've felt that criticism
>from Updike and Fiedler regrarding JDS has always overlooked the fact that
>Salinger' has completely made his readers "understand" the glass family so
>intimately that the criticsim that follows imagines the characters'
>realities as though they were realities...will
EXACTLY!! This point makes me want to jump up and down on my bed
yelling "woo-hoo!"
Elizabeth
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