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Re "Was Salinger Too Pure for This World?" (Sunday Review, Sept. 15):
Joyce Maynard's revealing essay about J. D. Salinger's exploitation of young women, some of them minors, is very brave and credible. It's so sad that young people treated recklessly by older people in positions of power — artistic, religious, educational or even political — are left damaged and unlikely to take advantage of our legal system while statutes of limitations still apply.
These perpetrators use their superior powers to threaten their victims with all manner of horrors if they dare to tell. The maturity demonstrated by Ms. Maynard bespeaks the potential for victims to survive and grow. Therapeutic help is more available now than in earlier decades thanks to voices like that of Joyce Maynard.
LYNN OCHBERG
Okemos, Mich., Sept. 15, 2013
To the Editor:
Bravo to Joyce Maynard for finally saying what should have been said years ago. I only wish that J. D. Salinger were alive to read it. His relationship with teenage girls amounted to little more than child abuse.
I fell for Holden Caulfield when I was 12, as did every girl who read Mr. Salinger's iconic novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," and I can understand how young women would have been sucked into his creator's magnetic, sacrosanct world.
Where is it written that women aren't allowed to talk about what happened to them? The world bought into Mr. Salinger's convenient (for him), self-serving rule — that his privacy was more important than anyone else's well-being.
Of course, J. D. Salinger is not alone in his treatment of women. Hemingway, Picasso and scores of others could easily join the ranks. It's about time women spoke up.
IRENE GOODMAN KAMAROFF
New York, Sept. 15, 2013
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