Re: Holden Caulfield vs. Therapist
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:03:42 +1000
Aaron wrote:
> My English teacher is 100% positive that Holden Caulfield is talking to a
> therapist.
>
> Does anyone know of any evidence pointing in the OTHER direction?
Yeah. I don't think so and I know for a fact that a lot of other people
don't think so. So he or she must downgrade to at least 99%.
Which begs the question I've asked all along: does it really matter? I'm
gonna sound like a real phony but it seems a characteristic Section man (or
indeed woman) thing to think. I often shudder at the damage inferior
English teachers do on great literature. `Othello' is forever ruined for me
for that reason. One of the other teachers at my school taught her class
that Romeo and Juliet starred the Capulets and the Montages (R&J by
Eisenstein !?(: ) Then again, I guess it's the price we have to pay for the
brilliant teachers who teach us to learn and love literature we otherwise
wouldn't have been interested in.
Catcher in the Rye isn't much studied in schools over here. I'm glad. Very
glad.
(P.S. I wish I was the sort of person who could be 100% sure of *anything*
(: )
Camille
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