Re: Pregnant Franny?
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 09:09:54 -0700 (MST)
Winboogie, I agree--assigning all Franny's woes to being pregnant takes
too much out of the story to make it reach as deeply as it does to some
of us. Franny's possible pregnancy would really remove the significance
of her spirtual searching and honesty, things that are just too valuable
for anyone to toss aside.
It's funny that updike (as well as Fiedler) hated F&Z but I suspect that
if given the chance to revise their early negativity, they might...will