Franny and Zooey may be viewed as Salinger's fusion of Judeo-Christian religion and Eastern religion, and both Franny and Zooey go to great lengths to show the similarities between the different doctrines, especially in regards to incessant praying.
He had delved deeper into studies of Buddhism and other Eastern religions, and their central concepts, which peek up in his earlier work, take center stage here. The major themes surrounding Franny and Zooey accord with Salinger's life. They were combined into the novel in 1961, and rose to number-one that year on The New York Times bestseller list. Both the stores "Franny" and "Zooey" were originally published, as most of Salinger's stories were, in The New Yorker magazine, in 19, respectively. After his 1951 classic, The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger devoted his time to writing about this family of mystical prodigies in several stories from Nine Stories (1953) and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). He is fairly insensitive to her breakdown and only talks about wanting her to read a paper that he got a good grade on.Franny and Zooey is a major piece of J.D. Salinger himself.įranny Glass's boyfriend, Lane represents much of the phoniness and egotism in intellectualism and academics that Franny cannot stand. Many parallels can be drawn between the character of Buddy and J. Buddy is a writer and a teacher at a remote college. Buddy claims to be guilty of perhaps excess religious coaching of Franny and Zooey. At the time in which he narrates the story, however, Buddy is the oldest remaining Glass child, since Seymour committed suicide several years prior. The narrator who claims to have authored the "Zooey" section, Buddy is the second-oldest Glass child. She constantly wears a large, unflattering kimono around the apartment.
She encourages the children's intellectual pursuits but is not nearly so gifted herself. The mother of the Glass clan, Bessie is, with her husband, Les, a former Vaudeville star. He is a television actor and is the best-looking member of the Glass clan, according to their brother Buddy. The protagonist of the "Zooey" section Zooey, age 25, helps his sister, Franny, through her spiritual breakdown. She is an actress and an English major, but she has become disenchanted with college, socially and academically. The protagonist of the "Franny" section Franny, a 20-year-old college student who is in the midst of a breakdown, is the youngest child in the Glass clan.
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