We learn at the beginning of the story that Zooey is the brother of Franny and Franny is the youngest at home. In ‘ Zooey‘, the main characters are Zooey, his mother Bessie and Franny. But the conversation here is more sharper, less pleasant, making it very interesting. Reading this story is like watching the movie ‘ Before Sunrise‘ – there is no plot and it is all conversation. The conversation is about poetry, literature, theatre and related things. They are both students in college, and they meet during a weekend and have a long conversation. The main characters in ‘ Franny‘ are Franny and her boyfriend Lane. ‘ Franny‘ is around 30 pages long and ‘ Zooey‘ is around 100 pages long. ‘Franny and Zooey’ has two stories, ‘ Franny‘ and ‘ Zooey‘. I hoped to read ‘ Franny and Zooey‘ someday and find out how I felt about it. I had read ‘ The Catcher in the Rye‘ years back and I remember liking it, though I can’t remember much of the the plot now. When I was discussing J.D.Salinger books with one of my friends a long time back, she told me that her favourite Salinger book was ‘ Franny and Zooey‘ and she liked it more than ‘ The Catcher in the Rye‘.
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