"The Good Girl" and Graduate School

 Meghan et al.,

You statements seem to almost describe the Holden character (Tom is his
slave name) from the film "The Good Girl." Did anyone else see this movie
and have any thoughts about the strong Salinger connection? It was a bit
overboard in my opinion. Maybe that was the point?

Thoughts?

Amber

P.S. Non-Salinger material to follow. I will (hopefully) be going into an
Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD program next year. To all of the
resident academics are any of you familiar with the 'atmosphere' of any of
my top 10 choices for Graduate school?
1. Pennsylvania State University
2. Bowling Green State University
3. Saint Louis University
4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5. University of Connecticut
6. Colorado State University
7. Portland State University
8. Texas A&M University
9. Rice University
10. University of California, Berkeley

-----Original Message-----
From: m e g h a n
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Sent: 9/3/2002 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters

>I actually feel the same way you do about Catcher and the Glass stories
(I
>get a lot more out of the Glass stories). . .just, if you want to judge
>Salinger's influence, there's just no getting around or beyond Catcher.

I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be
selfish)it's
not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it
a
lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who
are
like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger
as
their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better)
work.
It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I
first
read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom
buy
it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's
100
kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when
they
probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope
that
someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other
work
and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for
that.

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