Franny And Zooey Data Sheet
Name: Danielle Sy
Major Works Data Sheet
Title of the Work: Franny and Zooey
Author: J. D. Salinger
Date of Publication: July, 1961
Genre: Novel
Historical information about the Setting:
Franny and Zooey was written during a post-war America. World War II ended not long ago and America was at an economical high. New York was booming with industrial business as well entertainment. But, there were a many faults in society. The 1950’s were a time of conformity and blindly accepting the words of highly respected intellectuals.
Plot summary:
Franny
Lane Coutell is standing by the train stop when his girlfriend, Franny, steps off the train to greet him. Franny and Lane eat lunch but fight about Lane being over-intellectually boastful when …show more content…
D. Salinger pokes at society’s flaws in his writing. Through Franny’s crisis, he talked about how people conformed, were phony, and blindly trusted intellectual people. He was very descriptive about the setting of the scene. He gave you a detailed image of the room so you could picture being there. He also heavily relies on dialogue to understand a character’s mood and emotions. You observe characters change as they interact with each other. Another style he shows in this story is third person point of view. By telling the story this way, you not only hear the person speak, but Salinger also describes their movements.
Give examples from the text that demonstrate that style:
Salinger criticizes how quick people are to conform and change them selves to fit the standards of society through Franny’s crisis.
“A nylon shower curtain, scarlet, with a design of canary-yellow sharps, flats, and clefs on it, was bunched up at the foot of the tub, attached with plastic rings to an overhead chromium bar.” Salinger goes into detail describing the shower curtain on a tub.
We notice Franny’s constant change of mood and uneasiness through her conversation with Lane. Without the dialogue between the two, we wouldn’t understand Franny’s odd actions.
“She was still looking abstractedly ahead of her, past his shoulder, and seemed scarcely aware of his presence.” Due to the third person point of view, we get to here her words and thoughts on conversation and her unspoken emotions shown with her body
Major Works Data Sheet
Title of the Work: Franny and Zooey
Author: J. D. Salinger
Date of Publication: July, 1961
Genre: Novel
Historical information about the Setting:
Franny and Zooey was written during a post-war America. World War II ended not long ago and America was at an economical high. New York was booming with industrial business as well entertainment. But, there were a many faults in society. The 1950’s were a time of conformity and blindly accepting the words of highly respected intellectuals.
Plot summary:
Franny
Lane Coutell is standing by the train stop when his girlfriend, Franny, steps off the train to greet him. Franny and Lane eat lunch but fight about Lane being over-intellectually boastful when …show more content…
D. Salinger pokes at society’s flaws in his writing. Through Franny’s crisis, he talked about how people conformed, were phony, and blindly trusted intellectual people. He was very descriptive about the setting of the scene. He gave you a detailed image of the room so you could picture being there. He also heavily relies on dialogue to understand a character’s mood and emotions. You observe characters change as they interact with each other. Another style he shows in this story is third person point of view. By telling the story this way, you not only hear the person speak, but Salinger also describes their movements.
Give examples from the text that demonstrate that style:
Salinger criticizes how quick people are to conform and change them selves to fit the standards of society through Franny’s crisis.
“A nylon shower curtain, scarlet, with a design of canary-yellow sharps, flats, and clefs on it, was bunched up at the foot of the tub, attached with plastic rings to an overhead chromium bar.” Salinger goes into detail describing the shower curtain on a tub.
We notice Franny’s constant change of mood and uneasiness through her conversation with Lane. Without the dialogue between the two, we wouldn’t understand Franny’s odd actions.
“She was still looking abstractedly ahead of her, past his shoulder, and seemed scarcely aware of his presence.” Due to the third person point of view, we get to here her words and thoughts on conversation and her unspoken emotions shown with her body