Franny and zooey book5/13/2023 She says she's tired of people like the section men, or even the famous poets at her college. Franny says he's talking like a "section man" - a graduate student who takes over class when a professor is out, and invariably criticizes and ruins the author the class is studying. Lane dominates the conversation, boasting about his recent "A" paper that criticized French writer Gustave Flaubert. In Sickler's, a preferred restaurant of the college intellectuals, Franny and Lane drink martinis. Lane tells her the plan to get lunch, and Franny says she's missed him, though she quickly realizes that this is a lie. She quickly puts it away and they walk out, with Franny making most of the small talk. Franny arrives, and he asks her about the pea-green book she is carrying. He rereads her letter, in which she repeatedly expresses her love for him. The big football game against Yale is this weekend. College-boy Lane Coutell waits for his girlfriend, Franny Glass, to arrive by train.
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