MY CHOICE FOR "FRANNY AND ZOOEY"

Hi all!

Here I attach you the excerpt I have chosen from "Franny and Zooey": it talks about Franny break-down in the restaurant’s bathroom. I have liked it because, from my point of view, it reflects the anguish that everybody sometimes has felt (in fact I think that almost everybody has cried liked that in a bathroom).

“Abruptly, then, and very quickly, she went into the farthest and most anonymous-looking of the seven or eight enclosures -- which, by luck, didn't require a coin for entrance -- closed the door behind her, and, with some little difficulty, manipulated the bolt to a locked position. Without any apparent regard to the suchness of her environment, she sat down. She brought her knees together very firmly, as if to make herself a smaller, more compact unit. Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black. Her extended fingers, though trembling, or because they were trembling, looked oddly graceful and pretty. She held that tense, almost fetal position for a suspensory moment -- then broke down. She cried for fully five minutes”.

See you on Friday,

Neus