Re: franny & zooey

Yeah, that's pretty plausible too -- and Tolkein was indeed a genius in this
way. The worlds he created, I think, had too much detail for even He to keep
track of, so he invents textual and transmission difficulties :). Wonderful :).

I'm reading a collection of poems entitled _The Adventures of Tom Bombadil_ and
he talks about things like marginalia, initials, whether or not the poems were
invented by the author or transcribed by them, etc., in the preface...all the
things a literary critic would ask of a text, of course.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> Or he changed them slightly between the stories because he wanted the
> details to support his story and he couldn't go back and undo the previous
> story. I love how Tolkien approached these discontinuities in his Middle
> Earth works, he incorporates them as artifacts of the recording of
> 'history'. Maybe Buddy misremembered the details. Or Franny was lying to
> here boyfriend to hide the family oddity (Seymour) from the section man
> wannabe.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:15 PM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: franny & zooey
>
> Ah, Salinger just lost track of details :). So what? :)
>
> Jim
>
> m e g h a n wrote:
>
> > I agree with you. Just to answer your question, the critics said things
> such
> > as "Franny in 'Franny' does not mention any siblings," and "In 'Franny' it
> > says that 'The Way of the Pilgrim' came from the school library, in
> 'Zooey,'
> > it is said that it came from Seymour's room." It doesn't make sense to me,
> > and obviously not to anyone else on this list.
> >
> > Meghan
> >
> > >From: Jaime Stallard <stallard@SLU.EDU>
> > >Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> > >To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> > >Subject: Re: franny & zooey
> > >Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:25:45 -0800
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >---Jaime
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "m e g h a n" <bedroomdancing@hotmail.com>
> > >To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
> > >Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:58 PM
> > >Subject: franny & zooey
> > >
> > >
> > > > So, to bring the list back to a Salinger related topic...
> > > >
> > > > I've read a few reviews/critiques/whatever on "Franny" and on "Zooey."
> A
> > >few
> > > > of them have made the point that just because the two stories are
> > >grouped
> > > > together in a book, it doesn't mean that the Franny in "Franny" and
> the
> > > > Franny in "Zooey" are the same person. I was just wondering what
> > >everyone
> > > > else's opinions are on this subject.
> > > >
> > > > Meghan
> > > >
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