For this one, however, it didn't bother me.
It's a quick read too it only took me a few hours to finish it.Īs I'm not religious myself, I don't always enjoy books with religious themes.
#Sooey lane full
A story full of arguments, depression, religious mania, and existential crises sounds like it would be quite heavy, but Franny and Zooey is actually rather heartwarming.
The Glass family is pretentious, arrogant, and way too smart for their own good, but they also know this about themselves, try to temper it, and love each other in the meantime. Salinger's writing is clever and funny, and his characterizations of Franny and Zooey are excellent. This is a very short novel, and not much actually happens in it, but it is still somehow a brilliant read. Zooey's tactics range from harshly calling out her behavior as selfish, to a much gentler phone call in which he conveys more optimistic ideas about religion and life goals. The rest of the novella centers around his attempts to help. Eventually, Zooey, Franny's elder brother, is enlisted to try and talk her out of her depression. Her mother is hovering over her, trying to coax her back into being her normal self, but she isn't meeting with any success. Franny has returned to her family home and set up camp on the couch. As her afternoon date wears on, she eventually faints and Lane takes her to a room to rest. She's been repeating a short prayer under her breath and in her head over and over in an attempt to reach this enlightened state. She also reveals that she's been coping with these feelings by turning to a religious book that instructs readers to "pray constantly" in order to attain spiritual enlightenment. She's having an existential crisis and doesn't see much point in pursuing the academic and career goals she once had. She eventually reveals that she's feeling extremely dissatisfied with what she sees as a lack of authenticity in the people and places around her. She seems to be annoyed with nearly everything Lane says, doesn't eat the food she orders when they stop at a restaurant, and appears pale and sweaty. As soon as she gets off the train, it is clear that something is wrong. At the beginning of the short story, Franny Glass, an undergraduate college student, has traveled to see her boyfriend Lane at Yale University. As it turns out, they are quite the quirky bunch. Salinger used these characters in some of his other stories as well, but this was my first introduction to the Glass brood.
Franny and Zooey are siblings in the Glass family, a fictional group consisting of a mother, father, and seven children. This book is split up into two sections, a short story called "Franny" and a novella called Zooey. I liked that novel back then, so I went into reading Franny and Zooey with high hopes.
I hadn't read any Salinger since I was assigned Catcher in the Rye back in high school. This book is also on my Classics Club list, so it's another opportunity for me to make more progress on that. Salinger was calling to me, so I decided to give it a shot. For some reason, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Taxes, fees not included for deals content.With the end of January quickly approaching, I decided to tackle another book from my Back to the Classics Challenge list. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this matter, you are welcome to contact our customer support team.īusinessYab is not a booking agent, and does not charge any service fees to users of our site.īusinessYab is not responsible for content on external web sites. The brand names, logos, images and texts are the property of these third parties and their respective owners. BusinessYab cannot be held responsible or liable for the accuracy, correctness, usefulness or reliability of the data. The content displayed in the BusinessYab Directory consists of information from third parties, among others from publicly accessible sources, or from customers, who have a presentation page in our directory. © 2022 All Rights reserved.Īt BusinessYab our purpose is to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists, restaurants, bars, hotels, local businesses.
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