Re: Antolini: Life Imprisonment

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Camille wrote:

> I mean, he says `this has happened about twenty
> times since I was a kid' - that's pretty
> unambiguous - but he seems reluctant to discuss
> it any further but instead represses it from his
> narrative.

Damn--for some reason, everytime I read Catcher that very passage stops
me--"this has happened about twenty times..."--but for some reason I never
hold onto it.

I'm not quite sure what to make of it this instant, but what I want to know
is why doesn't that stick with me?  It kind of smacks of Holden's
unreliability as a narrator, his bizarre exaggerations, but it *has* to
point to something.  I'll have to go look at it in context.

Any other thoughts on it?

--Brendan 




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