Franny and Zooey | Themes
Salinger offers a new look at time-tried themes. While some critics believe that organized religion exists as the main theme of Franny and Zooey, others claim that personal spirituality, with its failures and its successes, dominates. The theme of the American family exists throughout, offering a framework on which discussion of spirituality and religion hang. Through conversations between Franny and her brother Zooey, and between Zooey and their mother, Mrs. Glass, readers may piece together incidents from the family's past that figure into the formula that equates to the...
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