Hi, I’m finishing reading Nine Stories by Salinger and was wondering about his characters: I find all his children characters are quite adult-like while the adult characters are quite childlike. But all of them have a quality (and I say “quality” as in a characteristic, not as a judgement of quality) which I find (and this is definitely a judgement but not of quality) in equal part sweet and infuriating. Anyone cares enough to share some thoughts on my first ever Reddit post? (this is a non-judgemental quality request of attention)
I remember the first time I read Franny and Zooey, which is one of my favourite books, and my dad told me “if you don’t fall in love with Zooey, that’s fine-- he’s kind of difficult. If you don’t fall in love with Franny, you don’t have a soul.”