[Bananafish] Nine Stories

[terry cordwell]

Yes I understand that Jim I was thinking more along the lines of the actual 
final piece of dialogue between the older guy and the girl and what the 
reader is supposed to surmise from that.


>From: "James Rovira" <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
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>To: "bananafish list" <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
>Subject: Re: [Bananafish] Nine Stories
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:24:32 -0500
>
>Yeah, it's been discussed, but I think it's been years now.  My
>impression is that the older guy is in bed with the younger guy's
>wife, the younger guy is calling while they are in bed together, so
>when the younger guy says, "hey, she just walked in the door" he's
>lying to save face.
>
>Because the older guy knows he's lying while, of course, having just
>slept with his wife, that's a double humiliation for the younger
>guy--which only the older guy knows he's inflicting.  I think he
>becomes conscious of just how horrible and humiliating the whole
>situation is, and conscious of his part in it.  That is his epiphany.
>
>Jim
>
>On 1/12/07, terry cordwell <tcordwell112 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > It's probably been discussed here before, but anyone got any thoughts on 
>the
> > ending of Pretty Mouth?
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