7.1 Why did Seymour Kill Himself? While Sonny would refer you to an alternate explanation that he has worked out quite conveniently for quetions of this sort, at The Answer , Matt has the following to offer on this: There is, of course, no single correct answer to this question. I offer at least the following suggested answer, distilled from my undergraduate thesis on the story. It is largely incomplete due to length limitations. We are (somewhat …showed first 75 words of 870 total…

…showed last 75 words of 870 total…f or the Edenic apple. Thus, the apple, the intellectual treasure, is a component all along, beginning as simple "genius" in Joe Varioni and Raymond Ford and progressing through the Seymours and on into Teddy, by which time, as Zo! oey nicely reminds us, Sal inger's geniuses have figured out how to be unsmart. -Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu) Copyright 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. OTHER 8.1 Salinger and Pynchon What is the relationship between Salinger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**