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In the novel, Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, it is overwhelmed with many themes; the novel also reveals an important message on finding ones self and dealing with the difficulties and struggles of life; these themes consist of religion, egos, and culture. Franny Glass struggles with the phoniness and egotism that spreads through society. She longs to escape her problems and decides to get away from it by withdrawing into spirituality religious values through the Jesus Prayer. She soon realizes the down fall of her solution and through her pains and challenges; she learns how to deal with social unpleasantness. Franny learns that she needs to shed her egotism and act unselfishly. The novel also has many different symbols with meanings to them that relate to the book a lot.
Throughout the book, Franny gets more involved into religion. Franny seems to be looking for something in her complicated life. She turns to one of Seymour's old books, entitled The Way of a Pilgrim. This books is about a peasant man in search of understanding, how to pray without ceasing, so he can reach some sort of religious enlightenment. This man somehow relates to Franny, as the man is searching for happiness and Franny for a different reason. She begins to get interested in the Jesus Prayer in an effort to purge herself of the phoniness and ego she finds in herself. By constantly praying to Jesus, the person who prays is gifted with "Christ-Consciousness," in Zooey's words, and can "see God", in Franny's words. "'The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness.'" (Salinger. 89) At the end of the novel, Franny figures out that not only does one interact with Jesus through the prayer, but through all human race, since everyone carries Christ in him or herself. The Jesus Prayer has more to do with love than with religion. The novel also has very much to do with Buddhist thoughts, mostly about the idea of...
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