I just read it, so was what he explained to us just a daydream or was it his real life?
2007-02-24 10:52:57 · 8 answers · asked by :o 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i kno he's mentally unstable and that he's talking to a pschycatrist but i still don't understand if he was telling him a real story or a dream
2007-02-24 11:16:27 · update #1
Mr. magoo- i was asking because my teacher had asked a question to us, insinuating that it was a day dream and i did not realize that it was so i was asking about that..
2007-02-24 12:37:39 · update #2
Three times. Never got it.
2007-02-24 11:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by elgil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I gathered, he was on a downward spiral, and in the end he got some help. So, yes, he was talking to the psychiatrist, but about true events leading up to his hospitalization. That's my interpretation.
I just recently read it for my own enjoyment... so I don't know what they teach about it in schools. LOL!! Cheers.
Plus, in the end Salinger gives no evidence or reason to believe that it was a daydream.
2007-02-24 20:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by Globetrotter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe he was not quite in touch with reality, but most of it really happened. His visits to the museum were real - he loved the museum so much because he didn't like change, and the museum never changed - but his visions of saving the kids from the cliff definitely were not reality. He fears getting older, so when he encounters something that signifies a life change, he dealt with it by escaping into his fantasy world.
2007-02-24 20:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by JRBisme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. The entire book is written in flashback, so it's not a dream. It's written in first person, and he's telling us his story of how he ended up in a mental institution and the sad events leading up to his nervous breakdown.
2007-02-24 22:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by a girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most believe it is a dream. JD Salinger never really said if it was or not, hence the mystery still surrounding the book all this time.
2007-02-24 19:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by Rhody_Man31 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter. It's what the book is talking about that is important - the hypocrisy, the immorality, the corruption of the human condition. Insane or not, dream or not, the point remains the same.
2007-02-24 20:26:02 · answer #6 · answered by jhartmann21 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is talking to his psychiatrist in a mental institution.
2007-02-24 19:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The guy is insane, that's all I'm telling ya, read it again.
2007-02-24 18:57:42 · answer #8 · answered by sissy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋