J. D. Salinger's Franney

In J.D. Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey, Franny Glass is the once witty college gal who returned home due to a mental breakdown. Throughout the book, (precisely in “Franny”) readers can see the up and downs the youngest member of the Glass family goes through. Readers can also identify small differences between the prim, yet catty, Franny who was with Lane, versus the defeated and dejected Franny when she gets home. From different personality traits to distinct beliefs, the character of Franny Glass is not consistent throughout the two parts of the novel. Throughout the novel, readers witness three very different Franny Glass’s. The first, being the snobby, slightly dense, college girl. For instance, “It’s too bad about not being able to get me in Croft House,” (4). By showing the materialistic needs of something as
In college, Franny played the materialistic school girl. She was smart, pretty, and well liked. She was also the only remarkable Glass child there. When she got home, she was surrounded by the presence of her siblings: The extraordinary Glass kids. Though only Zooey was there, the auras of the other brothers were also present. Maybe at home, she wasn’t allowed to be the catty, materialistic girl she was at school. By being surrounded by other remarkable people, she just became ordinary. She became just Franny. This conveys a revelation of a false presentation at school, and her true self at home. The distinguishable differences of the two Franny Glass’s are important to the overall tendency of the novel because the book revolves around the crisis and breakdown she is suffering. If the one character is to have two split personas, than the main conflict of the story cannot connect with whom the story is supposed to be about. Specific details such as character traits and thoughts prove