y saga drew increasing critical attacks from even those corners of the literary establishment that had once accorded him an almost cult-like reverence. He withdrew from publishing and public life altogether. His novel length story "Hapworth 16, 1924," which once again revolved around an incident in the Glass family, appeared in the New Yorker in 1965; it was his last published work. Since the early 1960s, he has lived in seclusion in the state of New Hampshire. Reportedly, he continues to write, but only for his own satisfaction; he is said to be completely unconcerned with his standing, or lack of it, in the literary world. The Catcher in the Rye and much of Salinger's shorter fiction shares the theme of idealists adrift in a corrupt world. Often, the alienated protagonists are rescued from despair by the innocence and purity of children. J.D. Salinger uses characterization and other literary elements in Franny and Zooey and style and theme in The Catcher in the Rye to reveal the theme of a sensitive individual searching for spirituality.("J.D. Salinger", Novels 117)
             Franny and Zooey takes place over a long weekend in the fall of 1954 at an Eastern Ivy League college in New York City. " The two main characters of this work are Franny and Zooey Glass. This novel unifies two related stories, both of which appeared in the New Yorker, in 1955 and 1957" (Harris 147). The protagonist "Franny" is Franny Glass. She is a twenty-year-old college student in the midst of a breakdown. She is an actress and an English Major, but has become turned off by college, both socially and academically. Zooey is the protagonist of the "Zooey" section of the novel. He is twenty-five years old and helps his sister through her spiritual breakdown. He is a television actor and the most popular member of the Glass family.
             In "Franny" Franny Glass meets her boyfriend Lane Countell for a football week...