The Beaver Board's Mystical Quotes In Franny And Zooey

The Beaver Board's Mystical Quotes In Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, Franny goes through a religious breakdown and is guided back to her “sanity” through her older brother Zooey. Zooey and Franny’s religious belief was greatly influenced through Buddy and Seymour. Buddy and Seymour taught themselves through quotes in various reading material. They wrote these quotes on a beaverboard placed on the back of their door, as if they were their spirit guides always needing to be seen.

One quote deserves particular attention that is shown , when zooey entered Buddy and Seymour’s childhood room like it was a shrine, which was Epictetus’s quote “Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in

This party symbolizes Buddy’s appearances and tribute to the story. He is acknowledged as one of the “bastards” (Zooey. 54), according to zooey, responsible for Franny and Zooey’s religious childhood education. He also admits to narration during an intro of zooey’s first part, “I say that my current offering isn't a mystical story, or a religiously mystifying story, at all. I say it's a compound, or multiple, love story, pure and complicated." (Zooey.1.2). This proves of his thought and care to both heavenly and earthly matters. What is unique to Buddy, is even with his attitude to both matters, we only see advice and guidance through a three year old letter and dialogue between Franny and Zooey. This is what particularly admits him to the fourth party, with no respect per individual. His advice and teachings can also be taken as a blanket word, not tailored to one