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Franny & Zooey by J.D Salinger is a book where the author talks about how Franny & Zooey life is after Seymour’s death and when Buddy is not around anymore. The question is how does Seymour’s death and Buddy being no longer present affect Franny. Franny was all about theater and being the person who doesn’t care what other people really think of here. It affected her by her being religious, the pilgrim book, and identity crisis. First off Franny has an Identity crisis which is affected by Seymour’s death and Buddy being no longer present because she doesn’t have anyone to look at, Zooey is still trying to figure out stuff and their mom doesn’t really know what she is going through. Without Seymour or Buddy to help her she doesn’t try to find who she truly is. In the text the author writes about how Franny is tired of school and acting because of all the ego. “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere…”(Salinger pg.25-26). The words in the quote explain how she changed. Franny saying “I’m just sick …show more content…

In the text it doesn’t really state what Franny’s specific religion is. To the reader it is clearly that she doesn’t really believe in what she talks about. Franny doesn’t have a clear mind on what religion is which. Franny was confronted by Zooey in the book. “You didn’t like Jesus any more, and you wanted to know if you call Seymour at his Army camp and tell him all about it...”(Salinger pg.162). This is where Zooey is talking to Franny and talking to her that she doesn't really know anything that she is talking about. This relates to Seymour’s death and Buddy being gone because she clearly changed on her thought of Jesus. When Seymour was alive and when Seymour is dead. When Seymour was alive she did not agree with how Jesus did things when he was alive, but the when Seymour died she became someone who believes in Jesus and believes in other

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