The success led to public attention and scrutiny: reclusive, he published new work less frequently. Widely read and controversial, sells a quarter-million copies a year. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent readers. He released an immediate popular success. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. People well know this author for his reclusive nature. Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents. Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey’, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.įranny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.’įirst published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny’ and ‘Zooey’ offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J.
But just so tiny and meaningless and-sad-making. ‘Everything everybody does is so-I don’t know-not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily.
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