The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey
The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey are two novels written by J.D. Salinger. While the books explore different ideas, there are several common themes that run throughout the two novels. The themes of innocence, sadness, mortality, isolation, education, and dissatisfaction are all similar in Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye.
The main character in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield. Holden is a seventeen-year-old boy retelling the series of events that happened a year earlier that landed him in a psychiatric health facility. When the story starts, Holden is kicked out of his fourth school for failing grades. He journeys to his home city of New York where he hides out for three days so that his mom and dad do not find out …show more content…
Franny and Zooey feel as if the only people they can relate to is their own family because of their upbringing. They dislike going out with people because they fear conversation. “He says he never even wants to have lunch with anybody, even, unless he thinks there's a good chance it's going to turn out to be Jesus, the person – or the Buddha, or Hui-neng, or Shankaracharya, or somebody like that” (Salinger 190). They find it hard to talk to others about normal things. This problem with conversation is especially hard for Zooey and his career in acting because he often has to socialize with other people and directors. Franny and Zooey are both very judgmental of people and see most people as snobby and too materialistic. They find people with snobby and egotistical attitudes not worth knowing. At one point Franny tells her boyfriend Lane, “"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I respect” (Salinger 20). This shows Franny’s judgmental attitude towards others and that she finds it hard to find someone to relate to and someone that she thinks is worth
The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey are two novels written by J.D. Salinger. While the books explore different ideas, there are several common themes that run throughout the two novels. The themes of innocence, sadness, mortality, isolation, education, and dissatisfaction are all similar in Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye.
The main character in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield. Holden is a seventeen-year-old boy retelling the series of events that happened a year earlier that landed him in a psychiatric health facility. When the story starts, Holden is kicked out of his fourth school for failing grades. He journeys to his home city of New York where he hides out for three days so that his mom and dad do not find out …show more content…
Franny and Zooey feel as if the only people they can relate to is their own family because of their upbringing. They dislike going out with people because they fear conversation. “He says he never even wants to have lunch with anybody, even, unless he thinks there's a good chance it's going to turn out to be Jesus, the person – or the Buddha, or Hui-neng, or Shankaracharya, or somebody like that” (Salinger 190). They find it hard to talk to others about normal things. This problem with conversation is especially hard for Zooey and his career in acting because he often has to socialize with other people and directors. Franny and Zooey are both very judgmental of people and see most people as snobby and too materialistic. They find people with snobby and egotistical attitudes not worth knowing. At one point Franny tells her boyfriend Lane, “"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I respect” (Salinger 20). This shows Franny’s judgmental attitude towards others and that she finds it hard to find someone to relate to and someone that she thinks is worth