She despises her conceited professors and the entire college structure. The anger Franny feels about her frustrations with Lane, however, is indicative of the rage and harsh judgments that have permeated her life lately. Then, she gets angry with herself for feeling frustrated. Lane is arrogant, which only frustrates her. Though Franny tells him she has missed him, she really doesn't mean it.

Lane's decision to hide his enthusiasm hints at the deep rift between him and Franny. Franny arrives, and they set off to an expensive French restaurant for lunch Lane conceals how excited he is about their reunion. In it, she discusses her love for him, as well as a fondness for the poet Sappho. 'Franny' opens as Franny's boyfriend, Lane Coutell, also a college student, waits at the train station for her to pick him up.

Zooey charts Franny's brother's attempts to help her find some sense of stability, purpose, and solace. 'Franny' chronicles the title character's existential dis-ease while away at college and encountering for the first time the harsh realities of the world. Franny and Zooey are siblings, the youngest members of the fictional Glass family who figure prominently in many of Salinger's writings. Salinger, contains two shorter works, the short story 'Franny' and the novella Zooey. He died of natural causes on January 27, 2010, in New Hampshire at the age of 91.Franny and Zooey (1961), a work of fiction by American author J.D. Following this success, Salinger retreated to his Cornish, New Hampshire, home where he grew increasingly private, eventually erecting a wall around his property and publishing just three more books: 'Nine Stories,' 'Franny and Zooey,' 'Raise High the Roof Beam, and Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.' Salinger was married twice and had two children. Following a stint in Europe for World War II, Salinger returned to New York and began work on his signature novel, 1951's 'The Catcher in the Rye,' an immediate bestseller for its iconoclastic hero and forthright use of profanity.

Soon after, the New Yorker picked up the heralded 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' and more pieces followed, including 'Slight Rebellion off Madison' in 1941, an early Holden Caulfield story. Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out of several schools before enrolling in a writing class at Columbia University, publishing his first piece ('The Young Folks') in Story magazine.

Franny and zooey by jd salinger