Subject: Re: Franny Bashing
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 13:21:17 GMT
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:10:39PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> 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..."
Absolutely -- think of the boy in "A Boy in France," in a foxhole, a
mess, disaster all around him, and all he wants is to sleep, and when
he does he finally achieves some kind of peace.
We see this motif again and again in Salinger, sleep as the great
healer and bringer of physical and spiritual peace.
--tim
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