[Bananafish] RE: The Inverted Forest

[Michael J ANELLO]

marie!  welcome!  (the wagon is usually fuller, though most have either
fallen off it or have had their feet bronzed and they are now sleeping
with the angel fish, if you catch my drift!)
 
after much thought, i'd have to agree that the inverted forest is a
better story than hapworth.
 
that's because hapworth is not a story.
 
hapworth is a slip of the pen.
 
(frankie muniz sez, "you all are, bitchez.")

>>> "kenny2 at verizon.net" <kenny2 at verizon.net> 3/22/2006 10:15 AM >>>


Poor Mike. Saying that The Inverted Forest is better than Hapworth is
pretty severe.
Okay, let me paint my jaded scenerio on the "abrupt" ending of The
Inverted
Forest. It's November 1946. Salinger has been working on The Inverted
Forest since August, struggling with its length and extended
time-frame.
He's almost finished the novella. There's only a few pages to go until
the
end. Suddenly, the phone rings. It's Gus Lobrano at The New Yorker.
After
five years of keeping "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" hostage, the
magazine
has decided to publish it in the December issue - just a few weeks
away.
This is the big break that Salinger has waited for. But there's a
caveat.
The New Yorker needs the story revised before publication.(That's
"compressed" in New Yorkerese.) That doesn't leave Salinger much time.
He
dashes off a quick ending on The Inverted Forest and sets to work on
Slight
Rebellion. When The Inverted Forest is published in December 1947 (a
month
before Bananafish - which is far too close for comfort), Salinger's
haste
to put away the novella comes back to bite him in the ass.


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