Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters

Yep, I can see that. It actually worked in reverse for me. I never read
Catcher in High School. A female friend gave me her copy of _Franny and Zooey_
to read when I was 25 thinking, I suspect, that I really needed to learn
something from it :).

A little something about Franny and Lane, and a little bit more about Zooey.

I think I picked up Catcher when I was 33 or 34.

Jim

m e g h a n wrote:

> >I actually feel the same way you do about Catcher and the Glass stories (I
> >get a lot more out of the Glass stories). . .just, if you want to judge
> >Salinger's influence, there's just no getting around or beyond Catcher.
>
> I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be selfish)it's
> not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it a
> lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who are
> like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger as
> their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better) work.
> It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I first
> read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom buy
> it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's 100
> kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when they
> probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope that
> someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other work
> and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for that.
>
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