Subject: Re: Franny Bashing
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 09:44:10 GMT
Come on...the text gives us quite a bit more to go on than that :) You're
really validating Scottie here by not giving Franny any credit. What she
experienced approaches joy -- a significant experience in Salinger's
fiction, I would think. At any rate, regardless of how you view Franny,
Zooey's speech represented the resolution of the problem...that, I think,
is the point.
Jim
>
> Well, I do have to admit that she couldn't get much worse.
>
> All Franny does is faint on the couch -- how appropriate an action for
> an actress (oh wait, I forgot, she'd given it up) -- and listen when
> Zooey lays it all out for her. Then she's got two choices: continue to
> languish (must have been tempting for her) or return to the land of the
> living.
>
> Yeah, real growth there.
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
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