Biography EssayThe entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books—one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in ...
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Best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J. D. Salinger (born 1919) is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of Ameri...
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J. D. Salinger remains well known for a single novel: The Catcher in the Rye, which was hailed as "brilliant" upon its publication in 1951. While several of the short short stories Salinger also wrote...
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J. D. Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, the second child and only son of a Jewish father, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses and a Scotch-Irish mother. Very little is known about Salinger. ...
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The entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books--one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in the eleven-and-a-h...
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A few writers are so enveloped in their reputations that their work is virtually impossible to read without being distracted by their fame and their relation to the public. No one else has ever been k...
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Confronting another in an apparently unending series of collected essays about J. D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a British reviewer once asked with some asperity why nearly every Ameri...
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In the following excerpt, Gwynn and Blotner provide a mixed assessment of the stories "Franny" and "Zooey."
It is quite another story with "Franny," the be...
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In the following excerpt, Daniels perceives Zooey as one of Salinger's most complex and complete characters.
Reading first a novel like Malamud's [A New Life], and turning then to Sal...
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In the following excerpt, Panichas determines the role played in Salinger's novella by the Russian text, The Way of a Pilgrim, maintaining that it provides a fuller understanding of the struggl...
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In the following essay, McCarthy examines the phony and artificial nature of the characters of Franny and Zooey.
Who is to inherit the mantle of Papa Hemingway? Who if not J. D. Salinger? Holden Ca...
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In the following excerpt, Detweiler analyzes the spiritual crisis at the heart of Franny and Zooey.
A study dealing with the individual religious experience cannot ignore that most discussed of cri...
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In the following excerpt, French provides a mixed assessment of Salinger's novella, maintaining that it is "not distinguished art, but a self-improvement tract. "
In January, 1...
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In the following essay, Seitzman provides a psychoanalytic reading of "Franny. "
Among current American writers of fiction, no other writer has exerted so deep an influence as J. D. S...
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In the following excerpt, Lundquist traces the emotional development of the main characters of Franny and Zooey.
The book [Franny and Zooey] actually consists of two long stories put together into ...
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In the following essay, Alsen notes the similarities between Salinger's "Franny" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and asserts that "Franny" signals ...
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In the following excerpt, Wenke explores the theme of personal identity in Franny and Zooey.
With its sense of heightened expectation in relation to a facile reality, the opening scene of "F...
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In the following negative review, Updike contends that Salinger's characterization of the Glass family is inconsistent and idealistic
Quite suddenly, as things go in the middle period of J. ...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in the New Republic in September 1961, Marple explores the theme of sexual innocence in Salinger's work.
Salinger's first full l...
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In the following negative review of Franny and Zooey, Didion discusses the didactic quality of Salinger's prose.
When I first came to New York during the fall of 1956, I went to a party on B...
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In the following essay, Kirkwood offers a laudatory review of Franny and Zooey.
In common with the rest of the literate world one finds oneself in considerable awe of J. D. Salinger's power ...
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In the following essay, Fiedler discusses the defining characteristics of Salinger's novella.
I am not sure why I have liked so much less this time through a story which moved me so deeply w...
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In the following review, Bode analyzes the "medieval" quality of Salinger's novella.
The most remarkable thing about Salinger's pair of stories is how old they are. Thei...
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In the following essay, McIntyre explores the role of religion in Franny and Zooey, concluding that Salinger's concern is not with society, but with spiritual matters.
The publication of Fra...
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In this essay, Kermode provides a negative assessment of Franny and Zooey, asserting that it is essentially duplicitious and therefore disappointing.
It seems impossible to review Salinger without ...
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In the following essay, Sharma finds references to the Hindu sacred text Bhagavad Gita in Salinger's Franny and Zooey.
In the mid-fifties, throughout the sixties, and even the early part of ...
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In the following essay, Dev discusses the function of allusions to Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary in Salinger's novella Franny.
This note is based on the assumption that in a ...
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In the following essay, Samuels explores the significance of Franny and Zooey, concluding that the novella is, ultimately, an answer to “the question of how to live.”
No one becomes a...
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Jeff Martini
Mr. Luks
AP Literature and Composition
20 March 2005
A Rare Moment of Optimism in J.D. Salinger
After publishing The Catcher in the Rye in 1951 and Nine Stories in 1953, J.D. Saling...
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Teaching Franny and Zooey
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Franny and Zooey Lesson Plans contain 129 pages of teaching material, including:
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
Critical Essay by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner
A Rare Moment of Optimism in J. D. Salinger
