J. D. Salinger's Franny And Zooey
Lane Coutell
J.D. Salinger wrote many different short stories, one of those stories titled Franny & Zooey. This story talks mainly about two of the members in the Glass family. One in particular, Franny Glass, is struggling with the religious aspect in her life and Lane Coutell is her boyfriend. He does not care about her problems and thinks very highly of himself. Lane is only in the “Franny” section of this mini-novel, so he is rather a flat character. His intentions and attitude do not change in the story which also make him a static character. Lane Coutell is short-lived but has an enormous personality for the reader to learn about.
Since Lane was only in the Franny section, Salinger did not give an extraordinary description of what he looks like. He leaves it all up to the imagination of the reader. All Salinger gives it that he wears a “Burberry raincoat” (3) and has long slender fingers (19). With so little physical description, it makes sense for Lane to have personality that allows the reader to fill in the blanks.
Lane is a rather flat character. He starts out self-absorbed and prude and at the end, he is still only looking out for his best interest and not caring one bit about his sickly long-time girlfriend. In the Franny section, Lane does not change at all. …show more content…
When he took his girlfriend out to dinner she became ill. Sitting at the table, blabbering on about some paper he wrote that was thought so highly of, he “didn’t seem to notice” (19) Franny’s forehead becoming sweaty from sickness. After Franny fainted in the middle of the diner, Lane brought her back to where she was staying. He tells her to get some rest so that later on he can find his way back up so that they can be intimate. With everything going on in his girlfriend’s life, the physical, mental, and emotional turmoil, Lane still has the nerve to put all her issues aside as long as he gets what he
J.D. Salinger wrote many different short stories, one of those stories titled Franny & Zooey. This story talks mainly about two of the members in the Glass family. One in particular, Franny Glass, is struggling with the religious aspect in her life and Lane Coutell is her boyfriend. He does not care about her problems and thinks very highly of himself. Lane is only in the “Franny” section of this mini-novel, so he is rather a flat character. His intentions and attitude do not change in the story which also make him a static character. Lane Coutell is short-lived but has an enormous personality for the reader to learn about.
Since Lane was only in the Franny section, Salinger did not give an extraordinary description of what he looks like. He leaves it all up to the imagination of the reader. All Salinger gives it that he wears a “Burberry raincoat” (3) and has long slender fingers (19). With so little physical description, it makes sense for Lane to have personality that allows the reader to fill in the blanks.
Lane is a rather flat character. He starts out self-absorbed and prude and at the end, he is still only looking out for his best interest and not caring one bit about his sickly long-time girlfriend. In the Franny section, Lane does not change at all. …show more content…
When he took his girlfriend out to dinner she became ill. Sitting at the table, blabbering on about some paper he wrote that was thought so highly of, he “didn’t seem to notice” (19) Franny’s forehead becoming sweaty from sickness. After Franny fainted in the middle of the diner, Lane brought her back to where she was staying. He tells her to get some rest so that later on he can find his way back up so that they can be intimate. With everything going on in his girlfriend’s life, the physical, mental, and emotional turmoil, Lane still has the nerve to put all her issues aside as long as he gets what he