Salinger's respective masterpieces, The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951), examine the universal themes of personal relationships within the context of painful change. ... When Gregor's manager visits, the morning of Gregor's metamorphosis, Gregor says, "Sir! ... Kafka adds humor and irony with the modifier "if possible," which only serves to exacerbate Gregor's pain at being totally abandoned. ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the protagonists of each struggle with the same themes...

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A journey is the metamorphosis of perspective and development of a traveller, which can result in dissolution, or enlightenment. ... The irony is as Michael senior leads his son to the literal town of Perdition; he also, through his criminal deeds, consequently leads his son down the road he himself has led: a road to perdition, or eternal damnation for the sins he has committed. ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralp...

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Hoffmann's Kater Murr(1820/21), and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner(1824) are four novels of the earlier nineteenth century which develop their irony through varieties of structural bifurcation. ...

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