Re: franny & zooey

--- Jaime Stallard <stallard@SLU.EDU> wrote:
> Maybe I just have a very limited understanding of
> the two stories, but I
> can't see how the Franny in "Franny" is not the
> Franny in "Zooey". I haven't
> read them in a while but, to me, it does not even
> seem possible to seperate
> the Frannys. I wondering on what grounds these
> critics suggested that the
> Frannys were not the same person? Did they have
> anything to support these
> ideas? It's an interesting suggestion but it seems
> very unlikely to me.
>

i think john updike was first to point out that in
'franny' she's taking a religion survey and why would
a graduate of seymour's home seminars need that? also,
in 'franny' she says the pilgrim book is from the
library; in 'zooey' it's from seymour's desk. no where
in 'franny' is her surname mentioned. only 'her
brothers', not by name. the real point of all of this
is the idea that at the time of writing 'franny' jds
did NOT have a clear outline of the family members of
the glasses. Sometime after publishing 'franny' and
before november of 1955 he was knocked over by a
satori whilst brewing up a homeopathic concoction and
immediately sat down and started to write 'raise high
the roofboom, carpenters'. of course, when he took up
the pen to write 'zooey', he certainly intended (oops,
'authorial intent') for readers to believe that the
franny of 'franny' is the franny of 'zooey', and that
the events related in his home prose movie titled
'zooey' followed immediatedly on the heels of the
short story titled 'franny' (one which professor b.
would approve of).

kim

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Received on Mon Oct 28 21:30:10 2002