In a world filled with bigotry and animosity, humanity has created a society in which people have learned to live upon the opinions of others. Ideology can be defined as assumptions based on the beliefs and values of an individual, even though they may be incorrect due to the independent thoughts and perceptions of a person. Although not often noticed, these ideologies create prejudice towards different ways of life, such as the religious views of an individual. In modern day society when some Americans see a person who follows the Muslim religion, they think of one thing: terrorists. This ideology dates back to the attacks on the World Trade Center in which some Americans have now developed islamophobia due to the catastrophic event. In addition,
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Relatively similar to The Catcher in the Rye, this story is about a man named Seymour Glass who is a war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Seymour finds his innocence in a young girl named Sybil Carpenter while spending a moment with her on the beach and then takes his own life shortly after parting due to a reminiscence of his bad memories in the war. Alike Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, Seymour Glass and his wife, Muriel Glass, are both individuals that keep their feelings inside in order to attempt to fit into the accepted social norms. Muriel approaches her attempt to fit in differently than Seymour and Holden by attempting to tolerate the rules that society has set forth. She has lost control of her complete self, and Salinger demonstrates this idea when Seymour states, “she may be in any one of a thousand places. At the hairdresser’s. Having her hair dyed mink. Or making dolls for poor children, in her room” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” 6). Salinger wrote this as a sarcastic remark in attempt to exemplify how Muriel could be defying social norms but intentionally chooses not to. Unlike Muriel, Seymour is paralleled more towards the personality of Holden in the way that he expresses his idea of individuality. In an effort to defy the ideology of the unoriginality of people, Seymour Glass makes an attempt to disregard the social norms by …show more content…
Salinger was a notorious author that used literature to call attention towards a social issue, such as the detrimental views of social norms. During the time period in which J.D. Salinger was writing The Catcher in the Rye, a major social norm was that it was not normal for a person to express any sort of negative emotion, causing those emotions to be ignored when they were brought to attention. This ideology was sought to be defied by Salinger, thus causing him to attempt and stand out by releasing several scandalous literatures to society. Through his writing, Salinger attempted to prove that individuality is more important than fitting into societal norms. As illustrated in The Catcher in the Rye and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, Salinger was using fictional characters in pursue of pointing out the flaws in this social norm. This iconic author was possibly looking to improve society by creating a healthier outlook on a person’s personal life through the use of
Relatively similar to The Catcher in the Rye, this story is about a man named Seymour Glass who is a war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Seymour finds his innocence in a young girl named Sybil Carpenter while spending a moment with her on the beach and then takes his own life shortly after parting due to a reminiscence of his bad memories in the war. Alike Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, Seymour Glass and his wife, Muriel Glass, are both individuals that keep their feelings inside in order to attempt to fit into the accepted social norms. Muriel approaches her attempt to fit in differently than Seymour and Holden by attempting to tolerate the rules that society has set forth. She has lost control of her complete self, and Salinger demonstrates this idea when Seymour states, “she may be in any one of a thousand places. At the hairdresser’s. Having her hair dyed mink. Or making dolls for poor children, in her room” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” 6). Salinger wrote this as a sarcastic remark in attempt to exemplify how Muriel could be defying social norms but intentionally chooses not to. Unlike Muriel, Seymour is paralleled more towards the personality of Holden in the way that he expresses his idea of individuality. In an effort to defy the ideology of the unoriginality of people, Seymour Glass makes an attempt to disregard the social norms by …show more content…
Salinger was a notorious author that used literature to call attention towards a social issue, such as the detrimental views of social norms. During the time period in which J.D. Salinger was writing The Catcher in the Rye, a major social norm was that it was not normal for a person to express any sort of negative emotion, causing those emotions to be ignored when they were brought to attention. This ideology was sought to be defied by Salinger, thus causing him to attempt and stand out by releasing several scandalous literatures to society. Through his writing, Salinger attempted to prove that individuality is more important than fitting into societal norms. As illustrated in The Catcher in the Rye and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, Salinger was using fictional characters in pursue of pointing out the flaws in this social norm. This iconic author was possibly looking to improve society by creating a healthier outlook on a person’s personal life through the use of