Franny and Zooey Study Guide
Franny and Zooey study guide contains a biography of J.D. Salinger, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
College-boy Lane Coutell waits for his girlfriend, Franny Glass, to arrive by train. The big football game against Yale is this weekend. He rereads her letter, in which she repeatedly expresses her love for him. Franny arrives, and he asks her about the pea-green book she is carrying. She quickly puts it away and they walk out, with Franny making most of the small talk. Lane tells her the plan to get lunch, and Franny says she's missed him, though she quickly realizes that this is a lie.
In Sickler's, a preferred restaurant of the college intellectuals, Franny and Lane drink martinis. Lane dominates the conversation, boasting about his recent "A" paper that criticized French writer Gustave Flaubert. Franny says he's talking like a "section…
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