Re: holden caulfield vs therapist
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:09:32 +1000
ME Pierce wrote:
>>Who has read this book and not thought, "this guy is speaking right to
me" ? That is the phenomena of the novel--we forget Salinger; we forget
any thought of a psychologist. It's just me and Holden against the
world. We wouldn't feel this intimacy if we really believed that Holden
is speaking to some doctor. <<
YES YES YES YES !!! This is EXACTLY what I was talking about, exactly.
Pierce, buddy, *you're* the kind of English teacher we all need to have (:
!
Camille
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