Seymour Glass: Contextual and Linguistic Identity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.2.2-3.77-86Keywords:
Seymour Glass, personality, setting, participants, activity, communication channel, code, message form, subject matterAbstract
In the article, the personality of Seymour Glass, the chief character of the Glass family
saga by J.D. Salinger, is analyzed from social and his own philosophical perspectives. Two of
Salinger’s works – ‚A Perfect Day for Bananafish‛ and ‚Hapworth 16, 1924‛, which complement
each other in terms of character analysis, – are the focus of our attention. They offer answers to the
questions (a) how the personality of Seymour predetermines the frame structure of the whole Glass
series, (b) why Salinger starts with the end of Seymour’s life and ends with its beginning, and (c)
what are the author’s motives in writing ‚Hapworth‛ since one of its central ideas – philosophy of
reincarnation – has already been presented in ‚Teddy‛.
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2015-07-02
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Kulchytska, .O. and Baloh, E. 2015. Seymour Glass: Contextual and Linguistic Identity. Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. 2, 2-3 (Jul. 2015), 77–86. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.2.2-3.77-86.
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