Your argument has merit. Though, as a side note, my brother, right-handed, shot himself with his left. I've always thought that a bit odd. Thor >i have a lot of the same questions, but i have, after a bit of >consideration, come to the very surface conclusion that maybe salinger is >having seymour use his right hand to shoot himself for simple consistancy: >in Seymour: an introduction, at some point buddy says that seymour was >righthanded, and so it would follow that he would naturally use that hand. >maybe, that's it, just because salinger is creating charactors who i almost >forget aren't real, and a right handed person simply would use that hand. >on >the analytical side, one way (of many, i'm far beyond sure) it could be >explained is based on the assumption that the right also represents what is >"normal" and in someway just what society believes. if you use that, it is >as if that force that is killing him, excuse my ignorance in answering this >without rereading the story, because i don't have the book here right now, >but what i have been thinking about this lately is that the part with sybil >showed that the intellegence of childhood that he clearly values is >corrupted by society (my own little thoughts) which is represented by the >bananafish bit, (i would get into this, but i'm trying really hard not to >diverge), and the bit in the elevator shows pure alienation from society. >in >saying something true seymour (or anyone, really) is considered insane or >something like it. so, when he kills himself it is not really him, but this >society that is so different and he can simply not function in. by the way, >i just want to mention that if it seems like i'm making a lot of >assumptions >that i shouldn't, i already wrote a paper that proved a bunch of this >stuff, >so i'm not jsut making it all up, i'm just working based on those >assumptions. i'm sorry this is a bit incoherent, not a strong point at the >moment, but i find all this very interesting, and i would like to hear what >other people think. >Catherine > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com