Re: BANANAFISH digest 496
Sarah J. Eisenhart (sarahj@mills.edu)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:23:33 -0800 (PST)
>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:23:51 -0300
>From: "Diego M. Dell'Era" <dellerad@sinectis.com.ar>
>To: JDS Discussion List <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Subject: Hapworth?
>Message-ID: <000201be0466$8d446e40$0e8629c8@tegserv>
>
> Welcome Sarah J. E. ! It would be interesting to know how
>F & Z affected your life without your realizing it. I mean, if it.
>has succeded in doing that, then it is a really fine book, despite
>the critics that say it is overexplicit.
Hmm..interesting question. Reflecting upon it I guess to be more
pecise, I would really have to say that it was really specifically the
Zooey/ Franny "phony" phone call at the end of the book. I remember when
I was younger thinking over the idea of doing things for "the fat lady"
and really liking the idea--I guess I would say it sort of gave me an
answer of why *I* should do things and more generally it gave me a
concept of having a greater responsibility which was not associated with
what I thought of and rejected as religion. I think it is only recently
however that I realized to what extent I took just those last few pages of
the book and how much doing things for "the fat lady" became a sort of
existentialist mechanism for creating and developing myself. Err...I don't
think that explaination was at all clear. Does anyone have any ideas or
thoughts about "the fat lady" at the end of the book? I know for me it
was probably about the most important fifteen or so pages I have ever
read.