Laura wrote: >I got so angry at this professor and lost complete respect for them that >I dropped the course. (Never taking a creative writing class again). >(My fault, not hers). > >To clarify, or at least to finally get to the Point of all this: It >made me mad that a professor who was familiar with Salinger could even >THINK and AGREE with the idea that Franny got herself pregnant. As if >she needed a REASON to begin searching for some kind of ANSWER to the >religious life. Why couldn't she think it on her own? Why did a >pregnancy have to be the impetus of a life with more meaning than a >world of phonies? How could my wonderful Franny get herself knocked >up???!!! > >Okay so she WAS getting physically ill in the restaurant. And she said >she hadn't been herself lately. But anyone who really gets WORKED UP >over something can be made physically ill. I get myself really worked >up over things and make myself sick too. If I can, obviously Franny >can. I thought that (the professor) saying Franny was pregnant was >condescending; I thought (please forgive me here for what I am about to >say) that a MAN come up with that idea. As if a FEMALE couldn't come up >with SEARCHING on their own. As if only something AMISS (pregnancy in >this case) could only bring it on in the life of a girl. I was >affronted. To say the least. Yeesh! I think you were kinda hard on your prof. :) He/She was only telling you about one possibility that SOME people have considered. When I first read the story, the pregnancy thing crossed my mind, but I was trying not to get too stuck on one idea unless there was real reason to. I still don't have a set idea of what was going on with Franny. I'm open to any that you people might have... > >Now to the present: I re-read "Franny" last week. And I noticed many >allusions to what I thought were "relations of the sexual kind". Could >Franny have been pregnant? > Yes, there were "allusions to relations of the sexual kind". Even though they are really small, these "allusions" gave a BIG boost to the pregnancy theory. I might have totally dismissed it otherwise... The whole prayer thing has always bothered me. I can't explain it, it just doesn't seem like something that Franny (or any of the Glasses) would try. David E-Mail: schrimpf@usa.net http://www.biogate.com/david IRC Nick: "Amory"