Seymour's Suicide
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:03:40 -0400 (EDT)
Those are interesting comments...
Did Seymour predict his own demise? Would that be in Hapworth? Guess I
gotta read it :)
I think Teddy's case is supposed to be, within the context of the story,
an example of his connection with some kind of higher consciousness. His
attitude toward death was one of complete indifference for very specific
reasons.
But when Seymour killed himself, there's an element of pathos about it.
Jim
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Thor Cameron
<my_colours@hotmail.com> writes:
>***WARNING***WARNING***
>OBLIGATORY SALINGER REFERENCE:
>
>The reason that I started this is by way of a good thunk I thunked
>while
>reading Hap. in a doctor's waiting room.
>OK, both Tedd & Seymour predicted their own demise & other events.
>Are we
>to believe these as self-fulfilling prophecies? As supernatural? As
>higher
>conciousness?
>
>Seymour died @ age, what, 33 was it?
>I wonder who died in Seymour's life @ the age of 33.
>Seymour behaves in a way I think is in accord with a particular
>survivors'
>syndrome.
>It works like this: Johnny's father shoots himself @ age 35. Johnny
>grows
>up secretly believing that he, too, will die @ 35. Not necessarily
>that he
>will also commit suicide, just that he grows up unable to picture
>himself
>alive after 35.
>The symptoms fit. Just like Holden's family reacts to Allie's death
>in a
>DSM 4 textbook manner.
>
>Thor
>
>
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