SOURCE: "J. D. Salinger's Closed Circuit," in Harper's Magazine, Vol. 225, No. 1349, October, 1962, pp. 46-8.
In the following essay, McCarthy examines the phony and artificial nature of the characters of Franny and Zooey.
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