proven while Larry is explaining that he wants to spend his entire life searching for answers such as who God is, why evil exists and whether God has an immortal soul. Isabel tries to convince Larry that these questions are not important in life.It all sounds so adolescent to me. Those are the sort of things sophomores get excited about and when they leave college they forget about them. They have to earn a livin.12Zooey begins by letting Franny know that he does not have any positive feelings towards her Jesus prayer. The words it gives me the willies, gives off the idea that Zooey is actually trying to scare her from saying her prayer. In the last sentence of the quotation, Zooey is trying to tell Franny that she had better have a good reason for making it such an enormous part of her like. One can tell that Zooey is trying remarkably hard to make Franny question her belief. In addition, Isabels words to Larry are very insulting. She uses extreme sarcasm when she compares Larry to a sophomore in college with a dream that will lead nowhere. Isabel tries to make Larry insecure in his reasoning, and to make him feel like a fool. Both Isabel and Zooey care very much for Larry and Franny. It seems that the only way they can think they can change their minds about their religion or way of life is by insulting them to the extreme, putting them down, and making them feel like they are fools. If Zooey and Isabel were not so self center14ed, they may find better means of letting them know how they feel without putting both of them down, and making them feel like fools. Furthermore, since the two main characters put their search above their families and friends, they make their loved ones feel great disappointment and everlasting sadness. At the beginning of the novel when Franny and Lane were dining together, he noticed that she had changed, and he felt very insecure about how there relationship was going.Lane watched her for a m...
