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Franny (short story)

  • Type: Short Story
  • Length: 36 pages

Franny is a 1955 short story by American author J D Salinger. In the story, Franny meets up with her boyfriend at an unnamed American college where they plan to attend a Yale football game. - AsNotedIn

Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten-fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform.
J D Salinger, Franny




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Franny (short story)
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People
  • Burberry, Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of six boys out on the open platform.
  • Sappho, I think I'm beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho.

Places
  • Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Franny arrives in an unnamed town to attend a Yale football game. Maybe it's the annual Yale-Harvard football match up.
  • Princeton, New Jersey "Franny" is set an unnamed college town during the weekend of "the Yale game". Maybe it's Yale at Princeton.
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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1955/01/21 J D Salinger Author J D Salinger submits "Franny" to The New Yorker magazine.
1955/01/29 The New Yorker Publisher J D Salinger's mezzobula "Franny" appears in The New Yorker.

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Particulars for Franny (short story):
Art Type Book a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Historic Use Railway Station
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction

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Original Language: English



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