This was like researching JD Salinger's life and realizing he really was Holden Caulfield and really believed his shit https://twitter.com/manymanywords/status/811378421037223936 …
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Honestly Catcher in the Rye only holds up if you read it as an indictment of Holden as a tragically failed wannabe hero
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Which, I mean, it's in the text. It's what he thinks about himself and it's spelled out by the teacher who tries to get him to go to college
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Holden's teacher wants him to go to college not bc it'll hold all the answers but bc maybe it'll give him a little perspective
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That maybe he'll learn something from being forced to listen for a while instead of talking
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Which kinda applies directly to what's going on with Girls
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(And the RL Salinger rejected that advice and deliberately locked himself in a bubble for his whole life)
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It's hard to deal with knowing Salinger could write down that advice so lucidly and just not take it
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Like how famous misogynist Dave Sim got praise for writing a strong woman character and said he intended her to be pathetic and awful
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It broke my heart when I found that out. I still haven't been able to return to Jaka's Story. Maybe someday.
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