Alienation inSalinger’sFranny and Zooey

Abstract

This study onJ.D. Salinger’sFranny andZooeytriesto showthe position of the people, cultural conformity andmindlessmaterialismof Americain the period of the post war under the title “Alienation inSalinger’sFranny and Zoooey.”The condition of the cultureand the people is not better than the marketable commodity; they are controlled by the capitalists. Capitalistic mode of property handling makes the people victims of that mode, which resulted into alienation. All the characters sufferfrom the capitalist domination because of the reductionof the culture according to the capitalist modality. In order to liberate the peoplefrom capitalistdomination, the act of commodificationof culture should be stopped and the economic distribution should beequalized among all the people of the society.