Jose Islas Mrs.Kehrmeyer AP Languag Through Holden's suffering, J.D.Salinger is relieving his stress as he has experienced much of it through his life. J.D.Salinger was “ a college dropout, soldier, recluse, and writer who published only one novel”( Gale Literary Source 1). While Salinger was a college dropout so was Holden, “ One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all... I hated that goddam Elkton Hills”(Salinger 14). This is the first instance where Salinger begins to implement some personal traits into Holden which we find out through reading the book. Since Salinger was a college dropout he made Holden, a visual representation of his unconscious, dropout of school because he also hated
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Well J.D. Salinger, whose full name is Jerome David Salinger, attended 1 college and 2 universitys.In his book The Catcher and the Rye Holden goes to “Whooton School,Elkton Hills, and Pencey,” three different schools much like Salinger and Holden fails all of them very much like Salinger.The schools Salinger attends are The University of New York, Columbia University, and Ursinus College. After he attended these colleges Salinger wrote the novel The Catcher and the Rye, but two years after he had the novel published, “Salinger pulled up stakes in New York City and retreated to a secluded, 90-acre place in Cornish, New Hampshire. There, Salinger did his best to cut-off contact with the public and significantly slowed his literary output”(Biography.com). He had begun his isolation and cut off contact with everybody which also made him stop writing novels so it seemed but, “Those who knew him said he worked every day and speculation swirled about the amount of work that he may have finished. One estimate claims that there may be as many as 10 finished novels locked away in his house”(Biography.com).These books may be a sequel to The Catcher and the Rye or they may be short stories. We may have never known until, “ Shane Salerno and David Shields published a biography of the famed writer entitled Salinger. One of its
Well J.D. Salinger, whose full name is Jerome David Salinger, attended 1 college and 2 universitys.In his book The Catcher and the Rye Holden goes to “Whooton School,Elkton Hills, and Pencey,” three different schools much like Salinger and Holden fails all of them very much like Salinger.The schools Salinger attends are The University of New York, Columbia University, and Ursinus College. After he attended these colleges Salinger wrote the novel The Catcher and the Rye, but two years after he had the novel published, “Salinger pulled up stakes in New York City and retreated to a secluded, 90-acre place in Cornish, New Hampshire. There, Salinger did his best to cut-off contact with the public and significantly slowed his literary output”(Biography.com). He had begun his isolation and cut off contact with everybody which also made him stop writing novels so it seemed but, “Those who knew him said he worked every day and speculation swirled about the amount of work that he may have finished. One estimate claims that there may be as many as 10 finished novels locked away in his house”(Biography.com).These books may be a sequel to The Catcher and the Rye or they may be short stories. We may have never known until, “ Shane Salerno and David Shields published a biography of the famed writer entitled Salinger. One of its