Re: Franny Bashing


Subject: Re: Franny Bashing
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 13:10:39 GMT


Jim wrote:
Eh...this is probably a reasonable contextualization of Christ's teachings
given Salinger's own beliefs (and quotes from the Gita spread around F&Z as
well), but I don't think you really need to buy into Vedic monism to
identify yourself with the people around you. There are, of course,
Christian readings of Christ's teachings that don't read it as a claim that
"we are all
God," ----------------------------------------------------------------

Zooey just says christ because Franny has been hung up on the Jesus prayer,
as far as Salinger is concerned he could have said buddha or Krishna or
whatever else. This is not a christian teaching so we can't discuss
christian interpretation.

heh...that's a pretty interesting thesis...I could almost buy it. Do you
have any
references?-----------------------------------------------------------

My mother is the only one I would trust as a reference. I'll send her number
by private e mail. : )

I see more of a mood swing in Catcher than a change in
thinking...where in F&Z I see a mood swing (and a wider one at that) along
with a specific way of seeing the world differently...
Jim--------------------------------------------------------------

I don't know, in Catcher he cries as it rains hard on him, in F&Z Franny
goes to sleep. Of course sleep does have a special meaning in Salinger "You
take a really sleepy man and..." The specific "dogmatic" way of seeing the
world differently in F&Z is that we are all christ, just an idea that says
almost nothing.

Paul

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