at first glance Franny Glass is the perfectly average rich college boy's girlfriend. At first page, Lane seems to be able to fit in to his high class world, but is somewhat distant. "lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of six or seven boys out on the open platform. or rather, he was and he wasn't one of them. For ten minutes or more, he had deliberately been standing just out of conversation..." begins the second paragraph of the first page of this book. i wounder if this means something about Lane. is he not like the others, what is he missing, what keeps him from chatting with his group? As I  read further and further into this book, i discovered that it wasn't Lane who was different, but Franny. She, the perfect girlfriend, the perfect look, and proper education and cover, had thoughts that most people around her did not seem to be having. this character takes a different out look on life, and this book begins where she is somewhat confessing this to Lane, her boyfriend. Lane does not take this lightly, but that just makes him more like the rest of the world. this makes me question who he is if he isn't quite the rest of the world, doesn't just fall into his background but defends it when it is trialed. During this not so smooth dinner, Franny and Lane's relationship bounces from serene to unstable and the narrator implies that they are both questioning their relationship. So much was packed into these first couple of pages that i read. At the beginning of the week i a quarter of this book before realizing that i couldn't just be reading words on paper. it took me a while to finaly thoroughly analyze this wighting and go back and take in all these little things i didn't notice were happening before. i didn't catch a lot of these things partly because there is so much packed into so little in this book that most of it just runs by and i miss it. One last thing i would like to address with this book is how timeless it is. most of the key ideas that are thrust toward you while reading it are issues that the majority of people have today. It's just so relateable and real, that i don't think this book will get old. My hypothesis is that it will not be one of those books that you bring back to your English teacher's library amongst the rest of the books. it will be one of the ones you have to go to barns and nobles and buy for yourself so you can eternally keep it in your home. that's just a hypothesis though.