Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction Characters

Both "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour: an Introduction" are part of, as Buddy eventually explains, a much larger project: capturing his dead brother Seymour on paper. In these an...

Seymour is absent in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and dead in "Seymour: an Introduction," yet we know a lot about his character through Buddy's careful narration. Salinger very cleverly g...

Buddy's first impression of the Matron of Honor gives us a pretty good idea as to what her character is going to be like. "She was a hefty girl of about twenty-four or -five, in a pink satin dress,...

Between these two texts, we don't know too much about Muriel. The best glimpse we get is through Seymour's diary in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" when he characterizes their relationship v...

Mrs. Fedder's character is a lot like that of the Matron of Honor, and we notice that she raises similar issues. Both the women are forces to be reckoned with. They are opinionated characters who d...