How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Story.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
At that moment, though, he chanced to look up from the table and see someone he knew across the room – a classmate, with a date. Lane sat up a bit in his chair and adjusted his expression from that of all-round apprehension and discontent to that of a man whose date has merely gone to the John, leaving him, as dates do, with nothing to do in the meantime but smoke and look bored, preferably attractively bored. (Franny.2.57)
Lane becomes the stereotypical picture of college men, more concerned with how they look and who's looking that with anything of real consequence.
Quote #5
"There's an unwritten law that people in a certain social or financial bracket can name-drop as much as they like just as long as they say something terribly disparaging about the person as soon as they've dropped his name – that he's a bastard or a nymphomaniac or takes dope all the time, or something horrible." (Franny.3.14)
Franny's tone and judgment in this passage are very similar to the author's. Compare this to the passage at the start of "Franny" detailing the group of college men standing around at the train station.
Quote #6
"All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting – it is, it is. I don't care what anybody says." (Franny.3.38)
Franny's view of the majority of people around her is more terrifying on account of her fear of becoming like them.