Subject: Re: Franny Bashing
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 11:59:35 GMT
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.--------------------------------------------------------
But what does Zooey lay out for her really? That we are all the fat lady and
she is christ so we are all christ or ie Shirley Mclaine running on the
beach shouting out I am god, I am god, ugh I'm a little nauseous just
thinking about it. Salinger could have left out the last three pages or so
and it would have been a better story I think, gotta make sure and salt a
few I thinks in there, and just ended with an artists duty type of thing.
Salinger after his exile in Cornish began to take his characters lives and
problems and try to answer them with sterile ideation which more often than
not reflected his current reading. I still think Zooey was written because
Salinger no longer looked at the pilgrim's prayer the same way and wanted
to write Zooey at least partly as a corrective.
The scene in Catcher where Holden realizes you have to let them try to grab
for the ring even if they may fall off shows his growth and acceptance of
change and it's change and loss of innocense that he's been resisting. After
this scene he is no longer the catcher in the rye field. At the end his
"missing" of people like Ackley and Maurice is an acceptance of people with
their flaws, the difference here between catcher and F&Z is that this
acceptance is of people as they are and not through some hokey phoney
ideation that deserves to stay on new age book shelves.
Paul
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