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be money
and its potential efect on D. B.’s art. He makes a point of mentioning D.
B.’s new Jaguar and the fact that “He’s got a lot of doughnow. [though] He
didn’t use to” (1). It’s important to note that Holden doesn’t suggest that his
brother lacks talent as a writeracknowledging“he wrote this terrifc book
of short stories” but rather laments D. B.’s willingness to write
for money. In
Holden’s mind the roles of creative artist and producer of consumer goods
are mutually exclusive.
Film and stage actors come to representin the course of the novelthe
very teeth of this dilemma. “I hate actors” Holden notes. “Tey never act
like people” (117). For Holdenthe causes of bad acting (and herein lies the
dilemma) are the performer’s awareness of an audience and simultaneous
knowledge that he or she is a famous actor. “And if any actor’s really good”
he explains“you can always tell he
knows he’s goodand that spoils it” (117).
Holden notes that Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontannetwo actors he sees in a
Broadway play “didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. . . . Tey
acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were
goodbut they were
too good” (126). “If you do something [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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