![]() ![]() Zooey gets dressed and has an extended conversation with Zooey, which ends in Zooey bursting into tears. He makes a phone call to Franny, pretending to be Buddy, and shares with her some wisdom learned from Seymour – that she should live with optimism, resume her passion for theatre, and continue to recite the Jesus Prayer if it comforts her. Bessie, a retired vaudeville performer who raised the Glass children to become radio stars, wonders why her children are now unravelling in adulthood. ![]() He has an extended, bickering conversation with his mother Bessie, who tells him that Zooey has had a breakdown and is refusing to eat. Franny’s elder brother Zachary (“Zooey”), a 25 year-old actor, sits in the bathtub in his family home, smoking cigarettes and re-reading an old letter from his brother Buddy, which discusses their elder brother Seymour’s suicide. ![]() She faints, regaining consciousness in the back room of the restaurant while reciting her prayer. Anxious that they not be late for a college party, Lane pushes her to finish her lunch. Bored by Lane’s stories of college life, Franny refuses to eat, and tells him she has been practising a prayer by a Russian mystic. 20 year-old college student Franny Glass arrives in New York to visit her dull boyfriend Lane. What it’s about: New York City, the 1950s. ![]() Salinger’s novella about the neurotic youngest siblings of the Glass Family, living in luxurious despair in 1950s New York City. ![]()
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