Franny and Zooey

-The story begins on a December Sunday after classes at Pencey Prep school in Argerstown, Pennsylvania -Holden gets the “ax” for failing all of his classes except for English. (He has already failed out of three other schools) -Holden is told that he is being expelled, but he 's not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday, so he goes and visits his former history teacher who tries to give him academic advice. -Holden later returns to his dormitory where he becomes annoyed by…

known about Salinger’s upbringing other than he grew up in a wealthy family. Some of Salinger’s works other than The Catcher in the Rye include Nine Stories (1953), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), and Franny and Zooey (1961). He started out writing short stories in magazines, including Slight Rebellion Off Madison in 1946 for the New Yorker magazine. It was later rewritten and made part of The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Salinger later became one of the…