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nese audiencehe had commented on the inscrutable popularity of Salinger’s
novel: “Boys are frustrated because they aren’t cowboysand girls are frustrated
because they aren’t boys.” Te sociologist noted that “women have been the
audience for American fction and for movies. Tere are no girls’ stories com-
parable to Catcher in the Rye. Yet girls can adapt themselves and identify with
such a bookwhile a boy can’t so easily identify with a girl.”
48 In the literary
marketplaceRiesman speculatedreaders aren’t turned of or away if the cen-
tral characters are male but only if they are female. How many Boy Scouts and
Explorer Scouts have been moved by reading Te Bell Jar?
The Curse of Culture
Another way to understand the power of Salinger’s novel to generate con-
troversy is to recognize its vulnerability to moralistic criticism. From wher-
ever the source―call it Puritanismor puritanismor Victorianism―there
persists a tradition of imposing religious standards upon art or of rejecting
works of the imagination because they violate conventional ethical codes.
According to this legacybooks are neither good nor bad without “for you”
being added as a criterion of judgment. This entwinin [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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