Jess, don't read this post until you finish Zooey...I may give something away and I want you to enjoy the story before I storm in with the canons of analysis and ruin it for you and everyone else. Thankfully, I have never been confronted by someone (and I'm sure it would be in a remarkably self-assured, "I've taken two more years of english in college than you have," type) telling me that Franny was pregnant, or the legendary "She's anorexic" response. For this to happen, it would mean that Salinger is one of the infinite monkeys at the typewriter that finally finishes typing "King Lear." I doubt, sincerely, especially in the context of other works, that Franny is in any ordeal other than a spiritual breakdown. To me, its pretty obvious by the end of Zooey; why this theory about pregnancy and anorexia persist is, to me, just plain out weird. Does any one here believe the Franny pregnancy/anorexia version of the story? If so, could you explain why? And if so, what of the fat lady speech that Zooey gives at the end? What do you see its significance to be? (And I swear I'll try more than a snail up the mountainside to be fair...but slowly, slowly!) -ecas