Given that our most recent issue of The Mockingbird magazine opens with a quote from J. D. Salinger’s novel Franny and Zooey, I figured I would share something from one of his lesser-known pieces in print, the novella Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. In the novella, Salinger has a way of playfully getting at […]
Franny and Zooey and the Son of God Who Throws Tables Around
Why did no one ever tell me that Franny and Zooey was all about Jesus? I feel duped. But at least I have a new favorite book… and an even deeper appreciation for The Royal Tenenbaums. Here are a few of the many memorable quotes on the subject of, you know, Our Lord in Salinger’s […]
Three More from Franny and Zooey
“Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that […]
Psychoanalysis and the Grace of God in Franny and Zooey
From pp 109-110 of J.D. Salinger’s other masterpiece: “I don’t know,” he said. “It seems to me there must be a psychoanalyst holed up somewhere in town who’d be good for Franny — I thought about that last night.” [Zooey] grimaced slightly. “But I don’t happen to know of any. For a psychoanalyst to be […]