Re: franny & zooey

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
>
>So which authorial intent is correct? What Salinger intended when he
wrote
>"Franny," or how he intended "Franny" to be understood when he wrote
>"Zooey"? You can't have both in this case.

Well, of course. And I think it's pretty clear that his authorial intent
changed between the writing of "Franny" and "Zooey".

The first Franny is less layered than the second. She's less caustic and
less thinking. The first Franny could just as easily be pregnant as
traumatized by religious conversion (indeed, one could argue that the
religious conversion came out of a pregnancy scare), but the second one
could not. It is ridiculous to even imagine.

Honestly, I think that a comparison of the two Franny avatars would go
further toward uncovering the change in authorial intent than any other
character -- with the possible exception of the Seymour in "A Perfect Day
for Bananafish" against the one seen in "Seymour: an Introduction."

Such a comparison shows Salinger's development as an artist and thinker.
Which, I think, is a pretty significant leap.

Regards,
Cecilia.

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Received on Tue Oct 29 18:11:01 2002