Franny and Zooey Love Quotes
Citations follow this format: (Story.Section.Paragraph)
| The letter was written – typewritten – on pale-blue notepaper. It had a handled, unfresh look, as if it had been taken out of its envelope and read several times before: (Franny.1.3) |
Lane obviously cares for Franny, as we see by the number of times that he's read and re-read her letter, yet he doesn't reveal this to her.
| All my love, |
Franny lacks all the reticence that characterizes Lane.
| "I've just felt so destructive all week. It's awful, I'm horrible." |
Franny has just delivered a dagger of a confession to Lane – that it took effort on her part to sound loving in her letter – and all he does is focus on something material.
| "You want to use this a second?" Lane said abruptly. He was holding out a folded, white handkerchief. His voice sounded sympathetic, kind, in spite of some perverse attempt to make it sound matter-of-fact. (Franny.3.41) |
We can see the author's judgment of Lane in the use of the word "perverse."
| "He meets this one married couple, on one of his journeys, that I love more than anybody I ever read about in my entire life," Franny said. (Franny.4.13) |
Though she tries to play the book off as unimportant at first, Franny can't help but reveal how much it means to her.
| "You might like this book," she said suddenly. "It's so simple, I mean." (Franny.4.15) |
Franny makes herself so vulnerable here; she's really being honest with Lane for the first time.
| 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. (Zooey.1.2) |
What are the compound or multiple loves to which Buddy refers here?
| "I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married." (Zooey.5.61) |
There's an innocence to Zooey's character that keeps him wholly human, despite his genius intelligence and off-putting, cynical judgments.
