When she got there she began to talk to her older brother Zooey. Zooey took time to figure out the right things to say. While he was in the tub he pulled out this “four-year old letter that was stained and torn in two places” (69). The condition of the letter reveals that this it has been pulled out and read over several times. The context of the letter instructs and advises. Buddy is telling Zooey, all of the things he should be doing and reminding him how and why he and Seymour raised them to be the way they are now. Zooey reads through the letter trying to find any useful lessons to help Franny. This shows that Zooey still goes to his older brother for help. In the letter he found the lesson of the “idea of no knowledge and the quest of knowledge” (65) and incorporates this idea into his lecture to Franny because she is trying to use the book for other reasons than what it’s meant
When she got there she began to talk to her older brother Zooey. Zooey took time to figure out the right things to say. While he was in the tub he pulled out this “four-year old letter that was stained and torn in two places” (69). The condition of the letter reveals that this it has been pulled out and read over several times. The context of the letter instructs and advises. Buddy is telling Zooey, all of the things he should be doing and reminding him how and why he and Seymour raised them to be the way they are now. Zooey reads through the letter trying to find any useful lessons to help Franny. This shows that Zooey still goes to his older brother for help. In the letter he found the lesson of the “idea of no knowledge and the quest of knowledge” (65) and incorporates this idea into his lecture to Franny because she is trying to use the book for other reasons than what it’s meant