Re: zooey cam- the analysis

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:06:21 -0500 (EST) 

uh, sorry MEGAN :)  If it's any comfort, I knew I got your name wrong
right "after" I sent my post, but it was too late then.

I didn't say I didn't like your thesis -- I said I disagreed with it.  It
was an interesting way of looking at Franny and Zooey that I think
deserved some exploration.  The opposition between intelligence and
religion is there. . .I'd like to see it really nailed down and
explained, though.  Because I was approaching it with some skepticism I
wanted you to do a more thorough job.  It needed about 500 more words.

Of course, it's not like you had to turn it in for a class or anything,
right?  Maybe even on time?   

I'm glad you sent it, it's actually good to have something about Salinger
on the...uh...Salinger listserve :)

Jim

"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules.  Or the French."

--F.K.

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:15:38 -0500 (EST) OnyxLust@aol.com writes:
> Well, besides calling me Meredith, I thought you made several good 
>points
>Jim. I expect to receive a C for that paper, because of how much I 
>needed to
>"economize" it.  I don't write analysis papers very well, I would have 
>done
>much better if I could've written a persuasive paper that Seymour's 
>suicide
>(i.e., what Franny is having problems with) 
>is at the root of Franny's problem.
>  I turned in my thesis before I read Franny and Zooey the second 
>time, and
>couldn't change it after I had a better grasp of the book. So 
>basically I got
>stuck proving a thesis I didn't much like either.
>  It was a Junior honors thesis, does that count as "something" ? And 
>I know
>now to read the book a second time before formulating a thesis, even 
>if I
>think I understood it the first time around. I sent it to this list, 
>not
>because I thought it good (because I didn't), but because it was 
>Salinger
>related, and that's what this list is about.
>
>~Megan
>

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