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Loyalty In J. D. Salinger's Franny

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In “Franny”, Franny Glass meets up with her boyfriend for a date. She tries her very best to act in a nice manor, but she cannot hold back her inner emotions. She begins expressing her emotions in something that looks much like an emotional breakdown. Franny is very upset with her fellow students as well as professors and their materialistic views of the world. As she progressively becomes more upset, she reveals her obsession with the “Jesus Prayer”. She even recites it after she passes out in the bathroom. In this piece, the author is showing sadness in a life without a spiritual side. Franny is very upset while on the date, she is tired of herself as well as the people around her. “I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego” (Salinger 16). She feels that she is putting on a show instead of being herself. “Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right” (Salinger 16). She is looking for something more in life. Franny is looking to see something that is worth value and something that does not rely on the knowledge of men. “I mean even if you're terribly embarrassed about the whole thing, it's …show more content…

It shifts in the end of the story, and Buddy takes a different approach. “Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord” (Salinger 76). He also writes some different quotes, “God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions” (Salinger 77). As Buddy takes this approach towards Fanny and her problems everything in the story shifts. She is not completely calm after all of Buddy’s speech on God, but she becomes happy at the very end. It is only after that she acknowledges Christ that she receives peace. “For some minutes, before she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep, she just lay quiet, smiling at the ceiling” (Salinger

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