Your business, buddy, what he does with his hair. Goes with everything else you've told me about him. Into the men's room to muss his hair before he comes in You getĪ real homicidal glint in your eye when you talkĪbout this Tupper, for It's too damn personal, Franny, I mean it. I mean you don't justĭespise what they represent-you despise them. Seymour or Buddy would like,Įither, as a matter of fact-is the way you Particular inability to accept the frailties of others:īut what I don't like-and what I don't think either Have the gall to accuse Him of having created anĪnd he has an even more insightful observation to make about Franny's With it, is just something God sicks on people who the religious life, and all the agony that goes But Zooey offersĪn important general observation on such religious self-flagellation: Jesus Prayer as a means of getting in touch with God. The works of a Russian mystic who advocates endless repetition of a certain But then all of a sudden, when Zooey does intervene,įranny, who shares with Zooey and her other siblings (and with HoldenĬaufield) an exasperation with the inadequacies of all those around herĪnd with the problems of the world in general, has become fascinated by Seemed that these characters were simply Holden Caufields a little fartherĪlong in life-precocious, bright and charming, but hypersensitive to the Mother as she tries to convince him to help Franny, who is continuing herīreakdown on the family couch, having abandoned acting class. Her college boyfriend as she teeters on the edge of a breakdown, and theįirst three quarters of Zooey (1957), which opens with an extended sceneįeaturing the visiting TV star Zooey taking a bath and arguing with his Through the first story, Franny (1955), which concerns Franny's visit to I wavered between these two opinions, though leaning towards insufferable, Underage wits and savants, of an uncommon, if That should have been drowned or gassed atīirth, and those who held that they were bona-fide Were a bunch of insufferably 'superior' little bastards Restive camps: those who held that the Glasses In general, listeners were divided into two, curiously All seven of the children wereįeatured, each as they came of age, on a radio program called 'It's a Wise

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