Word: zooey
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Salinger Franny and Zooey...
...Salinger Franny and Zooey...
...suppression of a literary work on grounds of obscenity. Her second-class status thus established, poor Fanny found that the boys just wouldn't leave her alone. Like her sister-in-arms, Lady Chatterley, she has been dog-eared, passed around, pirated, smuggled, disguised in Franny and Zooey jackets, and buried under musky sweatshirts in prep school locker rooms the world over...
...slight super-intellegence in general and the Glasses in particular (like the wedding guests in Raise High) are in the out-group. The Glass children and their devotees are and the rest of the world is an audience-the "Fat Lady in the third row" who Zooey maintains is the real...
...disturb the wonderful Glasses as they grow up. Reliance on ritual is a characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...