Franny and Zooey

Throughout the book Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, Franny goes through a mental breakdown caused by the stress in her life such as school, acting and relationships. Through all that she was losing her true identity and began to take things very personal even though they weren’t intended that way. Everything was taking a toll on her life and began to change her . She discovered at the end that it’s okay to not be mad at people who are so different and end up quitting things because of those…

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…

Zooey helped Franny because he had a feeling that there’s something going on with her, mentally and spiritually. Salinger's story inspired readers to feel some sort of hope. He’s influenced to write about Franny and Zooey because in his private life, he had a similar experience like Franny and Zooey. Here he is more like Franny because in the story she is going through a rough break up. And as for Salinger, he had…

interested in eastern religion and it shows in “Franny and Zooey” with references to Hinduism and Buddhism. (Literary Reference Center Plus) The first appearances of Holden Caulfield before Catcher in the Rye. These were early successes for Salinger. (Great American Writers: Twentieth Century) “Franny and Zooey” is one book with two stories which form the same theme, how the suicide of Seymour Glass still affects the Glass family. Franny Glass and Zooey Glass are siblings in the stories and this…

youth, a considerable portion is dedicated to fortifying their emotions for their upcoming toils. However, what happens when life shatters this fantasy too early? Holden Caulfield from Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny Glass from his short stories, Franny and Zooey are two incidents of when the adolescent illusion cracks. Both these characters suffer from the death of their beloved sibling. Holden is an abnormal, introverted teenager who isolates himself from the rest of the “phony”…

A Man With All His F-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s Intact J.D. Salinger is an author with a complicated past of misogyny, pedophilia, and abusing his female spouses. Former lover of Salinger’s, though she prefers not to be remembered that way, and author, Joyce Maynard, has said, “The vision that emerges of Salinger’s relationships with women… is a bleak one, suggesting a man who spent his life fixated on a fantasy of youthful innocence while refusing to contend with the realities of day-to-day domestic…

Jerome David Salinger, was one of the most influent american writers in the XX century, being author of some famous books like “Nine stories”, “Franny & Zooey”, “Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” and “Hapworth 16, 1924”, all about the relationship of one single family, the Grass family. Although his only work that really made him famous was his first and most polemic and important novel,“The Catcher in the Rye”. J. D. Salinger (January 1, 1919), was born and raised in Manhattan, New…

This poem filled with imagery can be interpreted as Salinger’s hatred for fashionable society. The leaves swarming around might represent the people of New York City hurrying from place to place. The speaker says that they are around his feet which could mean that he feels superior to them since he does not try to conform to what everyone else does. He mentions the sun and describes it with negative words like scraggy and impotent. He tells it not to shine or primp for him. The sun could…

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York on January 1st, 1919. His father was a rabbi who ran a cheese and ham import business. Even though Salinger was smart, he flunked out of McBurney in 1934. His parents then shipped him off to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Once he graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy, he returned to his hometown. He decides to become an aspiring writer and goes to New York University. However, he was forced to drop out of New York…

sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. Salinger became interested in a literary career after attending a short story course at Columbia University (117). Salinger’s major works include: The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Hapworth 16, 1924 (117). The Catcher in the Rye is centered on a young sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield, a slacker who is struggling to find his main purpose…