How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Story.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"You haven't touched your goddam sandwich," Lane said suddenly. "You know that?" (Franny.4.18)
Lane, the materialist, attacks his food, while Franny, who is rejecting materialism, refuses to touch hers.
Quote #5
I know the difference between a mystical story and a love story. I say that my current offering isn't a mystical story, or a religiously mystifying story, at all. I say it's a compound, or multiple, love story, pure and complicated. (Zooey.1.2)
Yet what Zooey teaches Franny in the end seems to argue that there is no difference between a love story and a mystical story.
Quote #6
"What? Who doesn't? Exactly what don't I think isn't beautiful?" A minor groundswell sounded behind the shower curtain, as though a rather delinquent porpoise were suddenly at play. "Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God. Anything. 'Peter Pan.' Even before the curtain goes up at 'Peter Pan,' I'm a goddam puddle of tears." (Zooey.4.47)
Zooey continues his thought until it seems he's just sarcastically joking around, but we sense there's some genuine truth here. Zooey does take beauty seriously (as we see later by his reaction at the window, as he watches the dog outside). Read more about this in "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory."