Franny e zooey salinger6/1/2023 ![]() “Franny” is the short story of these four works (43 pages). If you don’t like one or all of the Glass offspring (and many don’t), it is safe to assume that “It’s A Wise Child” helped develop that dislike. This exposure played both to the considerable intelligence of all seven and, perhaps even more, their annoying egos. ![]() ![]() One of their claims to fame is that for the better part of two decades, starting with Seymour, at least one of the Glass offspring (and often two) was featured prominently on the national radio show “It’s A Wise Child”, a precursor to the awful reality television of today. ![]() There were seven Glass children - Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, twins Walt and Waker, Zooey and Franny (born 18 years after Seymour). Les went into “ministration” for the rest of his life Bessie concentrated on raising (some would argue “disrupting”) the family. Les and Bessie Glass were a well-travelled vaudeville team (song, dance and patter) who retired in Manhattan in the 1920s when Bessie figured out that two-a-day performances were being replaced by four-a-days that were little more than bridges between films. As noted in my previous post, Salinger introduces some members of the family (most notably Seymour in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”) in Nine Stories but it is in these two volumes - a longish short story and three novellas - that they are most fully developed. ![]() Salinger’s Glass family, or at least the two major published works featuring them. ![]()
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