Zooey Wins And Explaining Seymour Suicide

*I clutch non-discriminatory re-read (for the unique time so I became a Christian) JD Salinger's three top figure self-righteous stories: "Growth Kick the Roofbeam, Carpenters", "Zooey", and "Seymour: an introduction". I enjoyed them all, but top figure high-quality "Zooey". "RHTRC" struck me as a spotless instructions story, but - in conditions of Salinger's "ouvre" - transitional; "Zooey" is IT, a spotless instructions story that is idiosyncratically and 100 percent Salinger; and "Seymour" crosses the line from instructions story arrived a feeling of make-believe thesis. *As well as its shining outline picture, idiom, solidity and description; I was absorbed by the self-righteous aspect of "Zooey" - and the light it shone on the big unifying interview of the Screen chronicles: "why" did Seymour commit suicide? *"Zooey" begins with Salinger's difference eclectic, syncretic 'perennial premise New-Age-ish -type spirituality; and builds towards Salinger's top figure wholly-Christian epiphany - the charisma Fat Peer of the realm parable at the end. This paw marks is one which is - apparently - undergone by Franny, Zooey and Buddy; but "not" by Seymour. *Seymour's suicide was - I believe - caused by what Walker Percy termed the 're-entry surprise.(see WP's Out of the frame in the Window and my before blog posting http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-entry-problem-for-artists-and.html )This is inherent to any earthly spirituality - doubtless to any non-Christian religion - which does not hold a scrumptious afterlife with a refine of theosis - or fight of the possible towards becoming a Son of God. Seymour seems to clutch had in simple terms a indefinite feeling of transcendental belief (he does not specifically chime to believe that Truth, Beautify and Purity are intent, real - and to the greatness he does he regards them as immanent - within establishment - practically than paranormal).Persuaded, Seymour's spirituality is characterized by a belief in reincarnation practically than afterlife. *Yet reincarnation (even if true) is no main to anything - or practically it is in simple terms a foamy main to party questions (such as explaining a person's outline and behaviour) not model questions. New beginning in simple terms pushes the troubles of life behind or go by, not including administration any understanding of the possible associate to The Distinguished, to being, to meaning or balk.*Seymour argues (I chew over) that this earthly life appearing in on earth is "spotless" - if in simple terms we looked at it correctly. The weigh down is with people and their incline. "But" Seymour apparently couldn't get the acceptable incline "and detect it". He may perhaps get himself arrived the "perfect" exist of protection for periods, but would at some put on the right track clutch to re-enter the incline which saw the world as run of the mill, throb, full of spitefulness, lies, totalitarianism, short-termist selfishness. And it was this re-entry which he found unbearable; and which (it seems to me) led to his suicide. *Seymour understandably may perhaps not live up to his own ideals, his own aspirations - may perhaps not supply his own transient achievements.And, unfinished a foundation of Original Sin, and unfinished a belief in the dream of Christian helping hand - he had nowhere to go, not any to turn to but (as he imagined) obliteration and (he hoped) an end to his own hassle. *