Franny And Zooey Analysis

The book Franny and Zooey is a story that uses spiritual wisdom and wealth to help reveal the characters of the story. To help do this, the Jesus Prayer is applied from Franny. Franny starts using this prayer after her emotional breakdown and she has this breakdown because of her inability to decide to be passionate to her boyfriend, Lane, or to dismiss him because of Lane being arrogant and egotistical about himself. Franny has had this problem of disliking people who only care about themselves and the perspective they are perceived as. This problem has her consumed of calamity and this has sparked Franny to use the Jesus Prayer. Franny gets accused by Zooey that only uses the prayer to attain spiritual wealth and that Franny does the Jesus Prayer for the wrong reasons. Another reason that Franny does the Jesus Prayer is that she is trying to cover up her emotions and by doing this makes her stuck up. Zooey believes that Franny is doing the prayer just to gain spiritual wealth, but maybe Franny doesn’t know how to worship the prayer and to then be able to use it in good terms. It’s that Franny doesn’t understand the Jesus Prayer concept and this is mentioned in the quote, “When you don’t see Jesus for exactly what he has, you miss the whole point of …show more content…
Franny has been judging everyone and it has dampened her mood because it causes her to see the bad things in people and not the good, meaningful things. This quote helps in saying this, “There are nice things in the world, “were all such morons to get sidetracked” (Zooey, PG: 83). This reinstates that we need to focus on the better things in life. Near the end of the book, Franny soon realizes the beauty because she beauty in a dog outside of a window. Zooey is also enlightened because he finds the spot where he used to keep his rabbit holy and he gets spiritual wisdom from a diary entry. Franny also looks for spiritual wealth through readings of