Jerome David Salinger is one of the most significant post-World War II American novelists, when he published his The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he gained immediately a great reputation, especially among younger intellectuals. While little is know about his life because he is a secretive person, his only published novel is widely known throughout the world and is the 3rd most censored book in America. Besides The Catcher in the Rye Salinger has written many stories that have been featured in magazines such as Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, and the New Yorker.
Salinger was born in the fashionable apartment district of Manhattan, New York to a prosperous Jewish importer of kosher cheese and his Scottish-Irish wife on January 1, 1919. His lived with his father, mother, and two sisters in a beautiful apartment on Park Avenue. As a youth Salinger was very standoffish, not to a great degree, but it was noticeable and commented on. When called upon to be social, he could appear to be warm and engaging. He had no problem being the center of attention when amusing his classmates with well-told stories and jokes, but when it was time to go hang out, he usually stayed behind. .
Salinger had early, inner conflicts concerning his father, Sol, who was cold toward his son. Placed pressure on him to make money and wanted him to have a secure job with high social status. He also wanted him to some day take over the family business of importing and processing European meats and cheeses. When his father died he didn't bother to attend the funeral, nor even tell his girlfriend. .
After flunking out of McBarney School (1932-1934) in New York for failing to do his work, Salinger decided to attend Valley Forge Military Academy (1934-1936). His mother, not his father, took him to the entrance interview and he moved into the bunk hose a few days later. At Valley Forge, he was the manager of the fencing team, just as was Holden in The Catcher in the Rye.
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The author, JD Salinger, expresses his view of adolescence through the main character, Holden Caulfield. ... (Salinger 13) Holden finds himself questioning where he will go after his last day of Pencey. ... If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies- (Salinger 2). ... They can even have spit all over the pillow and they still look all right- (Salinger 159). ... (Sacks 445) Holden often expresses how some people are "goddam princes- (Salinger 134), and "bastards- (86). ...
In the drama Antigone by Sophocles and the novel Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger have major characters that change their outlook and viewpoints through out the story. ... Another example of irony in Antigone was Creon wouldn't change his decision because the people of Thebes would have thought he was weak even though they already thought he was weak because he didn't change his mind The novel Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger has a troubled teenage Holden Caufield, who struggles with the fact that everyone has to grow up. ...
JD salingers book, "Catcher in the rye" captures a few days in the life of Holden Caulfield. Holden's journey of self descovery begins when he is kicked out of Pencey College. Holden's feelings, the people he encounters and often his concerns are revealed to the reader through his thoughts. ...
In the book "The Catcher in the Rye," by JD Salinger, protagonist Holden Caulfield meets a variety of different female characters. ... When he gives his red hunting hat -right after he cries for a long time- to his little sister, Holden shows appreciation and love for Phoebe: "Then I took my hunting hat out of my pocket and gave it to her" (Salinger 180). ... I oughta go down and say hello to her, at least'" (Salinger 32). ... So what I did, I gave old Sally Hayes a buzz" (Salinger 150). ...
In the book catcher in the rye by J.D Salinger, Holden Caulfield, the main character is a negatively charged person, doesn't want himself or others around him to grow up and suffers from depression because of his brother's death. In JD Salinger's' Catcher in the Rye, a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield struggles with the fact that everyone has to grow up. ...
Such is the case with Holden Caulfield, the main character in JD Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. ... Holden states, "I felt something rubbing on my head, some guy's hand" (Salinger 191). As Holden attempts to leave, he expresses his feelings by stating, "I was shaking like a madman" (Salinger 193). ... Such is the case when Holden enters the night club; he immediately feels the phoniness in the room and suggests his hatred for conformity by stating, "It's one of those places that were supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming out of the ...