The Issue: Smoking

The issue of smoking has appeared in the book. Every character smokes. The mother, the son, the daughter, the boyfriend. It's very strange how accepted it is. In the restaurant it was polite for Lane to light Franny's cigarette and normal for them to smoke 5 or 6 in one sitting. When Zooey was in the bath tub he went through almost an entire pack. Bessie, while talking to Zooey in the bathroom, smokes alot. Almost every time there's a subject change she has a new cigarette. The way they smoke is very different from smoking today. It's sort of taboo.... people hide the habit these days. When my mother smokes (once of year) she tries to hide it going out late. Society forces people to. It's cool that society has the power to do so but, also frightening.