Re: Antolini: Life Imprisonment
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Thu, 04 Mar 1999 12:46:01 -0800 (PST)
---Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu wrote:
>
> liz,
> i'm not sure that saying holden was neglected by his parents is a
defensible
> position if you stick to the text. true they don't play a huge part
in the
> story, but does it follow that they don't play a significant part in
holden's
> off-text life? i got the feeling they weren't negligent, just
> negligible...matt
>
I suppose that Holden's parents really were not negligent because they
took control of all of the basic parent responsibilities. What I meant
was that they did not seem to really care or try to solve Holden's
problems because they just kept sending him to a new boarding school,
even though he really just wanted to be home. It seemed like they had
isolated themselves from their sons life.
-Liz Friedman
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