Can't understand whether it succeeded or failed

Eriberto 2022-09-03 18:03:44

I didn’t feel anything before watching the movie. After watching the movie, I felt very disgusted with the writer himself. I felt that he did not maintain his inner innocence. All kinds of behaviors were just because he was a selfish, indifferent and twisted liar. He had a prejudice against everything. He rebelled because of his unsound personality and the world. For good or bad, he couldn't help but sarcasm, to vent the anger brought by his own prejudice. Now there are many geniuses of this kind of irony on the Internet. It is not because of some noble sentiment that he lives in seclusion, but the distorted personality cannot adapt to the escape of normal interpersonal communication. He is not a person who does not want to be fame, but enjoys recognition and desires success, only to find that the troubles caused by fame and fortune can't bear him.

And ironically, there were so many noble people in his life who helped him. He just thought they hated them, but he still took advantage of the help from others. He himself was the kind of person he hated.

Looking at it this way, I don't know if this biography is a success or a failure.

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Rebel in the Rye quotes

  • Whit Burnett: I got an eye. I can spot talent coming a mile away. Saroyan, Cheever, Caldwell, I discovered them all. Of course, it would be nice if somebody discovered me.

    Jerry Salinger: Hey, come on, you've been published.

    Whit Burnett: I not only discovered them, I shaped them, I challenged them.

    [Pointing at his flat]

    Whit Burnett: This is me.

    [On the stairs]

    Whit Burnett: You should continue to write about Holden, but not as a short story.

    Jerry Salinger: Well, hang on, wait, wait, wait, wait. What do you mean?

    Whit Burnett: I think Holden Caulfield is a novel.

    Jerry Salinger: No, no, I couldn't write a whole novel. I'm a dash man, not a miler.

    Whit Burnett: You only say that because you're lazy. Holden Caulfield deserves an entire book all on his own.

    Jerry Salinger: A novel's a lot of words.

    Whit Burnett: It's just more words. Imagine the book that you would want to read and then go write it.

  • Jerry Salinger: Anyway, how's everything at the home front with you? You are good with Martha chewing your ear?

    Whit Burnett: Everything at my home is fine...

    Jerry Salinger: Yeah?

    Whit Burnett: Because what you'll learn about having wife is that occasionally she just needs to yell to feel better.

    [Jerry laughing]

    Whit Burnett: Oh, and by the way, I'm awfully sorry about the New Yorker.

    Jerry Salinger: How'd you know about that?

    Whit Burnett: Oh please. They canned the Caulfield story because you wouldn't take any of their notes. You know, you cannot be a pain in the ass until you're a success.