Franny and Zooey Dissatisfaction Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Story.Section.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 Franny saw that he was irritated, and to what extent, but, for the moment, with equal parts of self-disapproval and malice, she felt like speaking her mind. (Franny.2.23) |
Franny may be dissatisfied with the way the world works, but she's equally dissatisfied with her own judgmental reaction to it.
| Quote #2 She smiled at Lane – in a sense, genuinely – and at that moment a smile in return might at least have mitigated to some small extent certain events that were to follow, but Lane was busy affecting a brand of detachment of his own, and chose not to smile back. (Franny.2.34) |
There's a real sadness and sense of regret in this authorial tone.
| Quote #3 "I mean if he were a girl – somebody in my dorm, for example – he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through Wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so – I don't know – not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and – sad-making. 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." (Franny.3.16) |
Salinger really nails this college-age angst. Who hasn't felt what Franny is describing here?
