Subject: Re: JDS and 'The New Yorker'
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 20:15:50 GMT
Tim wrote:
>Interestingly, in Margaret Salinger's book, she describes how JDS's
>father or grandfather (I forget, and in trying to preserve the book I
>didn't mark it up, so if another reader can cite the page, that would
>be great) used to take "Jerry" to the beach and, holding the child in
>the water, look there for bananafish. So, Salinger picked up this
>image of Seymour holding Sybil, peering into the water for
>"bananafish," from his father or grandfather at some point long before
>he conceived the story.
>From his father holding JDS and Doris. Page 19.
> it's alluring to think that this childhood idyll
>got fused with a story of such horror to create the looking-glass
>atmosphere of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."
Really good point.
--Bruce
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