Re: franny pregnant?

Rod Lobaugh (ral@xc.org)
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 22:02:43 +0200 

It actually never occured to me, until a while back when this thread 
appeared earlier, that Franny might be pregnant.  I certainly HOPE 
it's not that.  Maybe just because it would shatter my view of a 
story that I cataloged in my head as being "franny on spiritual 
search heading down same road as seymour" kinda thing.  And also that 
I thought of it as being kind of the "aftermath" of seymour.  But 
only my opinion, and what the hell do any of you care.

Question though:  In this hot little debate (better WWF) the whole 
issue of whether or not Salinger's stories could be seen as following 
up each other.  As sequels or whatever.  Now, I hate the word sequel 
because it invokes images of stallone and bruce willis blowing things 
up, but maybe we could use the words "tieing into each other"  My 
question is, if the glass stories aren't suppose to tie in to each 
other, as it seems like some are saying, then why?

I'm just wondering, don't beat me up or anything.

An one more thing, somebody said this:

>And perhaps the only "true" first hand experience we see of Seymour
>(much beloved and talked about in all of the Glass family stories), 
>is in PDFB. None of the stories are tied together other that they 
>are all glimpses in the lives of the Glass family.

Well, I like glimpses thing, there.  Still wondering about why some 
(especially frannie and zooey) aren't tied together (even if Zooey 
was written two years or whatever later).  But I'm not sure we can 
say PDFBF was a first hand experience with my man seymour.  Didn't 
Buddy talk about writing that story in Seymour: An Introduction?  (He 
talked about writing Teddy also by the way, the eyes stuff and all)  
If in Salinger's world Buddy wrote it, wouldn't that make it Buddy's 
visualization of the events that took place based on the few facts he 
had?  Thereby not makeing it a first hand experience?

um, yeah

Rod
   
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