![]() ![]() ![]() The second story in this book, ‘Zooey’, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The book offers a dual portrait of the two young members of Salinger’s famous Glass Family.įranny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’ was first published separately as ‘Franny’ and ‘Zooey’, two sequential stories in The New Yorker. Written in two parts, as a short story and a novella, J.D. Salinger through his work, represents the plight of thousands of young adults who are trying to figure their lives out and identify themselves in a crowd. The spiritual and existential dilemma of life that bothers all of us, is what the writer has portrayed through two characters namely Franny and Zooey. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’ is a book that speaks the minds of young people all over the world. The funny part is, I’m not sophisticated. ‘I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. ![]()
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