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Lane takes Franny to a fashionable lunch room, where he is described as “monopolizing” the conversation and trying to impress Franny with his news of receiving a suggestion to publish his latest paper on Flaubert.

Bessie tolerates Zooey's behavior, and simply states that he's becoming more and more like his brother Buddy and wonders what has happened to her children that were once so "sweet and loving."

to find profound existential illumination in what Zooey has told her: “there isn’t anyone out there who isn’t Seymour’s fat lady” and that the “Fat Lady” is Christ himself.

Jennifer Dunn, in an essay, mentioned that the “disparity between bright busy surfaces and inner emptiness” found in Franny and Zooey can be read as a metaphor for modern society.

Carl Bode, in a Wisconsin University journal, suggested that Salinger, while writing in Franny and Zooey that “the phoney and the genuine equally deserve our love”, found this as an answer to some of his own emotional problems.

Reception
In response to “Franny and Zooey”, critiques were mixed. Carl Bode compared “Franny and Zooey” to the writing of Samuel Beckett, because of the “dialogue and brilliant stage directions”(Bode). Jarmila Dvorak remarked that Salinger represents “the greatest literary sophistication” that can be built around raw emotions (Dvorak). But John Updike criticized “Franny and Zooey” as being poorly arranged (Anxious Days). Also, Ralph Daly in the Vancouver Sun believed that Franny and Zooey didn’t approach the quality of Salinger’s novel “Catcher in the Rye” (Fuss).