Salinger's most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, ironically is autobiographical in nature. ... Also, "Holden Caulfield moves from prep school to prep school, is threatened with military school, and knows an older Columbia student, among other similarities." ... Since The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger has written very little. ... Also, I wonder why Salinger hasn't written anything since The Catcher in the Rye. ... The setting of The Catcher in the Rye is set among downtown New York City in the 1950's, though this time period has no relevance to the story line. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield's fall into depression. ... He then decided to never go home or to another school again. ... Holden then went to Phoebe's school. He wrote a note to her telling her to meet him and the museum so he could say goodbye. ... Bibliography • The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger, J.D. ...

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Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Shakespeare's Othello are very similar in many ways, in that they both use akin aspects of characters to reveal how they are alike. ... When Holden was at Phoebe's school to deliver a note, he noticed a shocking profanity on the wall, and angrily thought: It drove me damn near crazy I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote in on the wall. ...

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• Grade Level: High School