Refinished We 1/20/21- Biden Inauguration Day. I finished the book after a walk downtown to mail back a couple of Netflix discs and to check the 'military presence' around the capitol. Guardsmen and cops blocked in front of Boone's Saloon and along 2nd St.- East, and Jefferson- North.
I know I've read this before, but it was probably close to fifty years ago. But I still think it's a better book than 'CATCHER IN THE RYE'. Anything about the Glass family is worth a look.
***Some random thoughts on the book:
Two Sections:
1) Franny at college and can't stop cutting down the people in her life. The action happens at a restaurant. Franny is visiting her boyfriend, Lane, for the weekend.
2) Franny is home with her brother, Zooey, and her mother Bess. Zooey is in the bathtub reading an old letter from his brother, Buddy. Bess is in the bathroom bothering him. Then Zooey tries to help his sister with her confusion.
I think I liked it better this time and I missed most of it fifty years ago.
Franny and Zooey are the youngest of the Glass family.
Franny is having difficulty accepting The Jesus Prayer. It seems that all of the Glass children have had a go at this prayer. To Pray Unceasingly.
The both feel eclipsed by their over achieving siblings.
The Glass children seem to let their intellectual superiority get in their own way.
Obsessed with all 'the phoniness' of the world at large. This echoes the theme of 'CATCHER IN THE RYE'.
All the 'Deplorables' are human too, and if you think that's not important, but Jesus does.
The book's page at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_and_Zooey
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