wonderful actress, tries to explain to Lane why she would give up something as important as the theatre department Franny explains:I just quit, thats all, it started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac. I dont know. It seemed like such a poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego.6Furthermore, in The Razors Edge, Larry did not go back to school after the war, but he did have a great opportunity to be his best friend Gray Maturins partner in a successful business operation, which he later rejected. Elliot could not understand why Larry would turn down this kind opportunity. Elliot explains what Larry could have had with these words:Larry had a chance of getting in on the ground floor, and if he kept his nose to the grindstone he might well be many times a millionaire by the time he was forty.7Notice how in both of these examples they each turned down the most valuable career money wise. It is quite oblivious that they did not feel complete with a good paying job. Franny actually used the word embarrassment while describing her job as an actress. Obliviously she felt ashamed of what she was doing with her life, and the people she was associating with. Franny did not want to become an actress because mostly everyone in her family was one and she did not like the pressures that were being placed upon her to be the best. She felt embarrassed and did not like to act, she wanted to live her life how she wanted not how everyone else wanted her too. In addition, Larry puts it quite bluntly that he does not want the career offered by Mr. Maturin and Elliot has a disgusted opinion of him right away for not taking the job. Elliots shock that a man could reject this sort of offer just exhibits how materialistic the people surrounding Larrys environment are. Both Franny and Larry disagree with the people around them, that wealth brings happiness. Another very important fa...
