The novel Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger is about a young actress named Franny and her mental breakdown. Her brother, Zooey throughout the novel tries to “cure” Franny and guide her through this difficult time. In the novel they both seem to put on this dramatic performance for each other and the readers. Salinger presents the story through the eyes of Buddy the older brother of the two main characters, who was second hand telling the story. Salinger uses Buddy as a pawn so he can be in the novel.
Throughout the book Salinger sets a “scene”, sort of like a play would. He sets up these “sets” that he tends to describe in great detail Salinger, also places the characters in these “sets” during important parts of the book. He also gets very descriptive when introducing us to the “sets”, like in Buddy’s letter when Buddy is at the at the meat counter, “ A young mother and her little girl were waiting around, too. The …show more content…
“I’m so sick of their names I could cut my throat… This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. I wish to God Buddy’d make up his mind. He does everything else Seymour ever did — or tries to. Why the hell doesn’t he kill himself and be done with it?… (Salinger 88,89).” This quote from Zooey is a classic example of Salinger being overly dramatic. While Zooey isn’t actually going to cut his throat him saying it got his point across. In an example from Franny, “Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth. (Salinger, 7).” Lane is using his face to put on an act for Franny and those around. He doesn’t want to show that he actually show how much he loves her, to her or to those
Throughout the book Salinger sets a “scene”, sort of like a play would. He sets up these “sets” that he tends to describe in great detail Salinger, also places the characters in these “sets” during important parts of the book. He also gets very descriptive when introducing us to the “sets”, like in Buddy’s letter when Buddy is at the at the meat counter, “ A young mother and her little girl were waiting around, too. The …show more content…
“I’m so sick of their names I could cut my throat… This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. I wish to God Buddy’d make up his mind. He does everything else Seymour ever did — or tries to. Why the hell doesn’t he kill himself and be done with it?… (Salinger 88,89).” This quote from Zooey is a classic example of Salinger being overly dramatic. While Zooey isn’t actually going to cut his throat him saying it got his point across. In an example from Franny, “Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth. (Salinger, 7).” Lane is using his face to put on an act for Franny and those around. He doesn’t want to show that he actually show how much he loves her, to her or to those