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. ... Though the importance of personal relationships to alleviating pain from change is central to both works, however, the vastly differing tones projected in each contribute to the differences in the meanings of each. ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the protagonists of each struggle with the same themes. ... Kafka's projection of a bitter...

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