Franny is described through the lens of her boyfriend Lane: Meanwhile, in Franny and Zooey, these physical descriptions are filtered through other characters. Everybody says that, especially my father.” And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. The one side of my head - the right side - is full of millions of gray hairs. “I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. When Caulfield describes himself, it is with unpretentious directness.
Holden Caulfield’s punchy first-person monologues have faded away instead, we get a more mature, omniscient, and at times even synoptic and journalistic narrator. Almost immediately, we notice major differences in style, perspective, and tone. Disillusioned by the attention, Salinger became a famous recluse, abstaining from public life while denying producers the rights to turn Catcher into a Hollywood film.Ī decade after Catcher, we get Franny and Zooey. Even decades after its publication in 1951, there was a time when Catcher was simultaneously among the most censored books in high schools while being one of the most taught. The book consists of two short stories about the two youngest siblings in a large family: the first focuses on Franny’s relationship with her boyfriend, and the second on Zooey’s emotionally tumultuous relationships with Franny and their mother Bessie.įrom both a literary and commercial perspective, The Catcher in the Rye represented the high point of Salinger’s career. Today, we’ll be talking about Franny and Zooey, the 1961 classic by J.D.
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