Franny and Zooey

by

J. D. Salinger

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Franny  Quotes

Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person.

Related Characters: Franny Glass, Lane Coutell
Page Number: 7
Explanation and Analysis:

“I think the emphasis I put on why he was so neurotically attracted to the mot juste wasn’t too bad. I mean in light of what we know today. Not just psychoanalysis and all that crap, but certainly to a certain extent.”

Related Characters: Lane Coutell (speaker), Franny Glass
Page Number: 11-12
Explanation and Analysis:

“If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing beautiful.”

Related Characters: Franny Glass (speaker), Lane Coutell
Page Number: 17
Explanation and Analysis:

After a moment, she picked up the book, raised it chest-high, and pressed it to her—firmly, and quite briefly. Then she put it back into the handbag, stood up, and came out of the enclosure.

Related Characters: Franny Glass, Lane Coutell
Related Symbols: Little Book/The Way of a Pilgrim
Page Number: 20
Explanation and Analysis:

“And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”

Related Characters: Franny Glass (speaker), Zooey Glass, Lane Coutell
Page Number: 23
Explanation and Analysis:

“I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m afraid I will compete—that’s what scares me. That’s why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right.”

Related Characters: Franny Glass (speaker), Lane Coutell
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:

“But the thing is, the marvellous thing is, when you first start doing it, you don’t even have to have faith in what you’re doing. I mean even if you’re terribly embarrassed about the whole thing, it’s perfectly all right. I mean you’re not insulting anybody or anything. In other words, no one asks you to believe a single thing when you first start out.”

Related Characters: Franny Glass (speaker), Lane Coutell
Related Symbols: Little Book/The Way of a Pilgrim
Page Number: 32  
Explanation and Analysis:

“All that stuff . . . I don’t think you leave any margin for the most elementary psychology. I mean I think all those religious experiences have a very obvious psychological background—you know what I mean . . . It’s interesting, though.”

Related Characters: Lane Coutell (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass
Related Symbols: Little Book/The Way of a Pilgrim
Page Number: 34–35   
Explanation and Analysis:
Zooey Quotes

I know the difference between a mystical story and a love story. I say that my current offering isn’t a mystical story, or a religiously mystifying story, at all. I say it’s a compound, or multiple, love story, pure and complicated.

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Seymour Glass
Related Symbols: Little Book/The Way of a Pilgrim
Page Number: 42-43
Explanation and Analysis:

I submit that Zooey’s face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is [...] But what was undiminishable, and, as already flatly suggested, a joy of a kind forever, was an authentic esprit superimposed over his entire face[.]

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Zooey Glass
Page Number: 45
Explanation and Analysis:

I can’t help thinking that you’d make a damn site better-adjusted actor if Seymour and I hadn’t thrown in the Upanishads and the Diamond Sutra and Eckhart and all our other old loves with the rest of your recommended home reading when you were small.

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Lane Coutell, Seymour Glass
Page Number: 52
Explanation and Analysis:

Have you ever seen a really beautiful production of, say, The Cherry Orchard? Don’t say you have. Nobody has. You may have seen “inspired” productions, “competent” productions, but never anything beautiful. Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage.

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass
Page Number: 52
Explanation and Analysis:

Seymour once said to me—in a crosstown bus, of all places—that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold.

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Zooey Glass, Seymour Glass
Page Number: 58-59 
Explanation and Analysis:

As much as anything, it was the stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn’t quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.

Related Characters: Buddy Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Mrs. Bessie Glass
Page Number: 78 
Explanation and Analysis:

“You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes[.]”

Related Characters: Mrs. Bessie Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Lane Coutell, Seymour Glass, Walt Glass
Related Symbols: Chicken Soup
Page Number: 85-86  
Explanation and Analysis:

“This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. I wish to God Buddy’d make up his mind. He does everything else Seymour ever did—or tries to. Why the hell doesn’t he kill himself and be done with it?”

Related Characters: Zooey Glass (speaker), Mrs. Bessie Glass, Buddy Glass , Seymour Glass, Walt Glass
Page Number: 88  
Explanation and Analysis:

“Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the Tattooed Lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, till everybody else is tattooed too.”

Related Characters: Zooey Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Buddy Glass , Seymour Glass
Page Number: 118  
Explanation and Analysis:

“You want your Emily, every time she has the urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away? No, of course you don’t!”

Related Characters: Zooey Glass (speaker), Franny Glass
Page Number: 141  
Explanation and Analysis:

“You don’t even have enough sense to drink when somebody brings you a cup of consecrated chicken soup—which is the only kind of chicken soup Bessie ever brings to anybody around this madhouse.”

Related Characters: Zooey Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Mrs. Bessie Glass, Buddy Glass
Related Symbols: Chicken Soup, Little Book/The Way of a Pilgrim
Page Number: 165-166   
Explanation and Analysis:

There isn’t anyone out there who isn’t Seymour’s Fat Lady. […] And don’t you know—listen to me, now—don’t you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It’s Christ Himself.”

Related Characters: Zooey Glass (speaker), Franny Glass, Seymour Glass
Page Number: 170   
Explanation and Analysis:
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