How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Story.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Lane, who knew Sorenson only slightly but had a vague, categorical aversion to his face and manner, put away his letter and said that he didn't know but that he thought he'd understood most of it. "You're lucky," Sorenson said. "You're a fortunate man." His voice carried with a minimum of vitality, as though he had come over to speak to Lane out of boredom or restiveness, not for any sort of human discourse. (Franny.1.7)
There is a phoniness and shallowness to most social interactions (outside of the very genuine Glass family) in this text.
Quote #2
Lane had sampled his, then sat back and briefly looked around the room with an almost palpable sense of well-being at finding himself (he must have been sure no one could dispute) in the right place with an unimpeachably right-looking girl – a girl who was not only extraordinarily pretty but, so much the better, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. (Franny.2.1)
This is the problem with Lane and Franny's relationship. He likes her because she's the right kind of girl for him to be seen with; not because of who Franny actually is.
Quote #3
Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and who believes he has just hit a stride where his voice can do absolutely no wrong. (Franny.2.2)
This is the sort of ego that Franny so despises.
Quote #4
The waiter left. Lane watched him leave the room, then looked back at Franny. She was shaping her cigarette ash on the side of the fresh ashtray the waiter had brought, her mouth not quite closed. Lane watched her for a moment with mounting irritation. Quite probably, he resented and feared any signs of detachment in a girl he was seriously dating. In any case, he surely was concerned over the possibility that this bug Franny had might b**** up the whole weekend. (Franny.2.34)
This is exactly how Zooey later interprets Lane, as someone who is more concerned about his weekend running smoothly than about Franny's well-being.
Quote #5
Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash, then brought the ashtray an inch closer to her side of the table. "I'm sorry. I'm awful," she said. "I've just felt so destructive all week. It's awful, I'm horrible." (Franny.2.25)
Franny later complains that Zooey is being destructive rather than helpful. This might have something to do with Zooey's discussion of taking things too personally and actually hating people, which fits with Franny's dislike of her own destructive judgments.
Quote #6
"Sometimes I could almost murder Buddy for not having a phone," she said. "It's so unnecessary. How can a grown man live like that – no phone, no anything? No one has any desire to invade his privacy, if that's what he wants, but I certainly don't think it's necessary to live like a hermit." She stirred irritably, and crossed her legs. "It isn't even safe, for heaven's sake! Suppose he broke his leg or something like that. Way off in the woods like that. I worry about it all the time." (Zooey.4.32)
Buddy shares his siblings' antisocial traits. None of the Glass children has been able to acclimate themselves to a normal, social environment.
Quote #7
"Who in hell is Lane?" he asked. Unmistakably, it was the question of a still very young man who, now and then, is not inclined to admit that he knows the first names of certain people. (Zooey.5.23)
Zooey, despite his spirituality and wisdom, still has the pride and arrogance of a typical young man.
Quote #8
"Go ahead," Zooey said, dragging on his cigar. "I'll interpret for you."
She shuddered. "It was just horrible. So spidery. I've never had such a spidery nightmare in my entire life."
"Spiders, eh? That's very interesting. Very significant. I had a very interesting case in Zurich, some years back – a young person very much like yourself, as a matter of fact –" (Zooey.12-14)
Salinger is clearly mocking Freudian analysis here. Such dream analysis was a part of the pop culture mainstream at the time.