Subject: Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [was RE: Words, words, words]
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 15:31:45 EST
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:16:32PM -0500, erespess@nji.com wrote:
> >Do we know from Salinger's other fiction that Buddy was supposed to be the
> >author of F and Z?
>
> I forgot to say that although I do believe that Franny of Franny is
> Franny Glass, I do not believe that it's author is intended to be
> Buddy. There is not nearly enough butting in with personal views as
> there is when Buddy produces his prose home movies.
I don't know ... I think it's there but more subtle -- especially in the
opening scene, where the narrator acidly portrays the academic "boys"
discussing issues that the non-matriculating world had been bungling.
(That is a paraphrase.) Even the line that describes how each boy, upon
the arrival of the train, manages to give the impression of having at
least three lit cigarettes in each hand sounds like a classic Buddyism.
There are definitely no Buddy HEADS popping up, but there is a subtle
tone in much of the narrative that at least allows you to infer that old
Buddy is at it again, this time, like Holden, traveling incognito.
--tim
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