Subject: Re: But if the Franny in "Franny" is not Franny Glass...
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 22:14:45 EST
In a message dated 1/26/00 6:43:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
citycabn@gateway.net writes:
<< WAIT: Just reading this, am I to infer Alsen feels Seymour fails
enlightenment, and Buddy achieves it? That the _real_ blue-striped unicorn
is Buddy, not Seymour? As much as I agree that Buddy's spiritual state
progresses over the stories (and at the end of SAI he achieves major insights
_via writing (meditating) directly on Seymour (his guru))_, I don't buy for a
second that Buddy goes beyond, let alone, reaches S's level.
--Bruce >>
I don't like Alsen's thesis. It's masturbatory to make "Franny" and then
"Zooey" out to be about Buddy. When Buddy jerked off in print, he drew
attention to it and begged forgiveness. I think the stories are about
Franny, and about Zooey, and only by remote extension about Buddy (as he was
part of the same family).
Jim
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