カエルとカタツムリ : "Franny"(1955)とMargaret A. Salingerのメモワール(関東英文学研究)

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  • Frogs and Snails : 'Franny' and Dream Catcher(Kanto Review of English Literature)
  • カエルとカタツムリ : "Franny"(1955)とMargaret A. Salingerのメモワール
  • カエル ト カタツムリ : "Franny"(1955)ト Margaret A. Salinger ノ メモワール

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In 1955, J. D. Salinger became a father of two daughters: the fictional one, Franny in "Franny," and a child of his own, Margaret. Forty-five years later, Margaret A. Salinger began her memoir, Dream Catcher, about her childhood by emphasizing her father's escapism: "Fiction, other worlds, other realities, were, for my father, far more real than living flora and fauna, flesh and blood." In that memoir, she recalls women who had direct dealings with Salinger, the young Claire, who was her mother and Salinger's second wife, and Joyce Maynard, a then-18-year-old writer of great promise to whom Salinger later lost his heart. For Margaret, their affectionate but immature relationships, including her own daughter-father one, seem to be established through the medium of Salinger's creation, Franny. By viewing Dream Catcher not only as a secondary material but as a creative interpretation of Salinger himself and his "fiction, other worlds, other realities," this paper provides an alternative possibility for the reading of "Franny." When Margaret confesses, for example, that she grew up as an "adult child," and writes about the tragedy of being torn apart by an ordinary girl and a mature woman, she reveals that her own serious condition, shared by Claire and Joyce, directly overlaps with Franny's condition, which prompted the rumor of her pregnancy. At this time, "frogs and snails" appeared in "Franny," becoming symbolical creatures for the real and imaginary Frannys who would never innocently belong to boys made of "frogs and snails and puppy dog tails." By attempting to show how deeply the original text of "Franny" resonates with these girls' other reality, this paper concentrates on the way Margaret's particular form of collectiveness-collective memories of Salinger's imaginary and physical "girls"-gains in significance when read inter-textually with Salinger's "Franny."

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