Summary Of Franny And Zooey

In effect, Alvy attempts to help himself and his family cope with the loss of a family member, Liz. Furthermore, Liz’s beat friend Zooey blames herself for the Liz’s death. This is shown during Zooey’s conversation on the phone, “I mean, if he hadn’t asked me to the prom, I wouldn’t have told Liz to meet me at the mall, and she wouldn’t be… [dead]” (Zevin 192) and during school, Zooey “speaks regularly about [Liz] with Edward, Liz’s ex-boyfriend” (Zevin 198). In a way, when Zooey grief about Liz’s death, by talking about her regularly, and blaming herself for Liz’s death; it is her way of coping with life. Ultimately, the people who were dear to Liz must cope with her passing, in any

Unlike Ed, her “hot tempered” nature and her inability to empathise with her son, has meant that she is unable to adapt to the demands of Christopher’s social barriers. This is evident in a letter in chapter 157 where she states “ Maybe if things had been differant, maybe if you'd been differant i might have been better at it. But thats just the way things turned out”. The repetition of ‘maybe’ demonstrates the initial complexity of human communication which in Christophers case, was further complicated by his social demands. Through Mark Haddon’s incorporation of a letter in this chapter, the difficulties in human communication is shown as his mother has resorted to indirect communication in explaining her reasoning for his abandonment. Although Judy lovingly and diligently cares for Christopher she struggles with the frustration she feels as a result of not always being able to understand her son’s behaviour. This ideology is further reiterated through the comparison in the letter between Ed and Judy seen in “Your father is a much more pacient person. He just gets on with things.. But that’s not the way i am…” Haddon’s characterisation of Christopher’s parents presents to the responder the conflicting side of love, the multi-faceted and complicated nature of human interaction, and the opposing approaches of both parents in communicating and dealing with Christopher’s condition, as part of their

One of the challenges of growing up is loneliness. As a small child living in Brooklyn Francie had no friends her age, the kids in her neighborhood that would have been candidates for friends either found her too quiet or shunned her for being different. "So

As Franny is observant, she is also over dramatic. Her emotions convey this beautifully on page 39 when she feels betrayed by Margie for going over the Gale’s house instead of hers. Franny and Gale don’t have anything against each other yet so Margie was just visiting another friend. Franny is being overdramatic even though the two live in a close proximity and are best friends so it isn’t like they never see each other. With these emotions of betrayal, Franny is not mentally allowing Margie to have many close friendships with any other classmates and is getting in the way of her own friendship. While Franny’s emotions can show a great deal about her being over dramatic, her words can as well.After Uncle Otts episode, Franny claims she is “embarrassed for life.” (49). Franny believes that everyone who knows her and her family are going to gossip about the episode at the dinner table and it will reflect badly on her. Franny doesn’t realize that Uncle Otts breakdown doesn’t reflect badly on her but only Otts since she wasn’t the one having the episode and was only a bystander. She even hid herself from the public so they couldn’t see her at all since she was hiding from Otts. Now words are just spoken thoughts and the final instance of Franny being over dramatic is seen through her thoughts. On page 109, Franny thinks the reason Mrs. R’s explanation of the science fair project doesn’t make sense is because Mrs. R hates her. Franny is taking this way too

The character of Fran is comparable to the duckling in Hans Christian Anderson’s short story ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Similar to Fran, the duckling does not fit in with his siblings and is taunted for being physically different to the other ducklings.

The novella, “Zooey,” begins with the youngest male of the Glass family reading a letter that was written to him by Buddy, his elder brother. Buddy tells Zooey of a chance encounter that he had with a little girl at the butcher shop. In his conversation with the girl, Buddy discovers she has two boyfriends. He asks her for their names, to which she replies, “Bobby and Dorothy” (64). Her reply is what motivates Buddy to write his letter to Zooey. He reminds his younger brother, “that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold” (67-68). In Buddy’s eyes, the little girl’s reply represents this ideology. She doesn’t recognize that there is a difference between Bobby and Dorothy; she just knows that they are her “boyfriends.” The butcher shop anecdote is

Raised by their older brothers, Seymour and Buddy, Franny and Zooey have been taught spiritual before educational. Zooey says, “ I can’t even sit down to a goddamn meal, to this day, without first saying the Four Great Vows under my breath,” (104) referring to Buddhism, Seymour’s prefered religion. Since they were young Franny and Zooey were taught many religions before educational facts.. While the Glass family members focus on this, Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger is a love story.

Franny’s problem rises even further as she tries to prevent her elder sister, Jo Ellen, from attending a meeting on campus (82) which is a new thing Jo Ellen does and often. This rising action expresses she has a big enough problem with change to attempt to prevent her sister from getting out of the house even though she is a young college student and she hangs around Jo Ellen a good amount. As the book continues, Franny’s problem grows to be more

Annie is a very sweet and loyal person she is very upset about her sisters’ disappearance the one thing Annie stresses about the most is that she doesn’t know how she is going to replace being the older sibling she really wants to find grace. Annie says people don’t just disappear Annie is a logical thinker. Grace and Annie are exactly the same age every year for one month it is clear that Annie is a worrywart and really wants her sister back

Franny’s response is a series of fragments and broken-off sentences that span two pages. Two concepts are communicated simultaneously. First, the content of Franny’s speech. Second, the back-last or second-guessing that goes on within Franny’s head. The first is the more well-known and more controversial of the two. Franny has been critiqued for so-called shallow concerns. John Updike famously referred to Franny as, “a pretty college girl passing though a plausible moment of disgust” in his New York Times review of Franny and Zooey. He calls Franny “pretty” to demean her intelligence. He calls her “girl” to demean her perspective. His use of “plausible” indicates that he finds her character understandable. John Updike may be a wonderful author and an eloquent reviewer, but he will never understand Franny. I understood her when I read “Franny” for the first time. There is no trick to it, it is simply that she was speaking for me. Updike, well, perhaps Lane was speaking for him.

Throughout Franny and Zooey, Franny perceives humans to be inherently evil. As a result, she constantly feels frustrated with the egotism and self-centeredness of the world. One of Franny’s major

Franny is a brilliant lady well read in religious philosophy due the early education she got from her older brothers Buddy and Seymour. Franny disparages her college experience because spirituality is not valued and emphasized in any of the educational disciplines. She is also frustrated because she thinks that she is wasting her time acquiring knowledge that doesn't advance spiritual growth and wisdom. Franny's frustration is first seen at her first encounter with her boyfriend. Lane represents the people Franny despises at her college. Franny accuses Lane of being a "section man" because he bragged about a paper he got an A grade on . She describes a 'section man' as one of the graduate students in her English department who is very intelligent

Zooey’s biased way of seeing Franny’s reasons of using the Jesus prayer can be compared to a quote from “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna” “sir we ought to teach the people that they are doing wrong in worshipping the images and pictures in the temple.that’s the way with you calcutta people you want to teach and preach you want to give millions when you are beggars yourselves...Do you think god does not know that he is being worshipped in the image?If a worshipper should make a mistake,do you think god will know his intent?”(Salinger). Meaning that god will know her intentions when praying,and will know she’s not praying for her but because she feels like she must do it in order to go on with her life and feel Seymor close.Zooey also suggests that if Franny is “going to say the Jesus prayer, she should at least say it to Jesus.And not to St.Francis and Seymour”(Salinger).Not only that but he suspects Franny’s “using the Jesus prayer

In the novel, Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, it is overwhelmed with many themes; the novel also reveals an important message on finding ones self and dealing with the difficulties and struggles of life; these themes consist of religion, egos, and culture. Franny Glass struggles with the phoniness and egotism that spreads through society. She longs to escape her problems and decides to get away from it by withdrawing into spirituality religious values through the Jesus Prayer. She soon realizes the down fall of her solution and through her pains and challenges; she learns how to deal with social unpleasantness. Franny learns that she needs to shed her egotism and act unselfishly. The novel also has many different symbols with

In the story Franny and Zooey there is this “Fat Lady” that is a representation of christ. One of the main characters in this story, Franny Doesn’t like the idea of “shining her shoes” for the fat lady. She also claims to not like how actors have this sort of fakeness about them and although she doesn't like these things she finds herself praying continuously to christ, and dating the type of person she hates the most. I believe that Franny is doing these things as a way to try to get closer to buddy and seymour.