The first time Salinger uses a little girl to signal a Zen moment takes place in his novel Franny and Zooey. Zooey is reading a letter from his brother Buddy in which Buddy rambles on and on about the path Zooey should take in life. ... Another instance in which Salinger uses little girls to signal a moment of Zen occurs in the middle of the novel Franny and Zooey. ... The next instance in which Salinger uses a little girl to signal a Zen moment occurs near the end of the novel Franny and Zooey. Zooey is talking to Franny about why she is upset. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As of 1966, Franny and Zooey shot to second place on the best -seller list (Vertical/Biography 7). ... "Franny" was first published in the New Yorker, January 25, 1955. "Zooey" was first published also in the New Yorker, on May 4, 1957 (Ryan 2581). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He has also published 35 short stories including A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1963), which first appeared in The New Yorker and introduced readers to Seymour Glass, a character who appeared in Franny and Zooey (1961) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (both 1963) and who eventually committed suicide. ...

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