J D Salinger Essay

Holden starts his story at Pencey Preparatory, a restrictive non-public school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday evening of the conventional football game with opponent school Saxon Hall. Holden winds up missing the amusement. As administrator of the fencing group, he loses their gear on a New York City tram prepare that morning, bringing about the abrogation of a match. He goes to the home of his history educator named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been removed and isn 't to return after…

nature of everything in the novel. Holden is guided through the events in his life based on ideals. He doesn't really think about what he does, but chooses based on his beliefs. The Catcher In The Rye shows several distinct beliefs about society. Salinger uses many of these beliefs to build the protagonist Holden Morrissey. The beliefs of holden contribute to many of his conflicts and actions throughout the course of the novel. Holden's beliefs and actions give the reader a sense of connection…

Even with all of his talk about his father's job, most of Holden's nervous ticks and character traits seem to come from his mother. For instance, Holden mentions "phonies" forty-four separate times throughout the novel (Corbett 68-73). This can be connected to his mother by the way he speaks about her. Her speech always seems to very insincere, and Holden displays that she has very little compassion for her own children. If his mother's actions were powerful enough to influence his obsession…

Salinger shows his attentiveness toward the rhythms of speech by using italics quite frequently in order to let the reader know when a character is placing emphasis on a word, or even on just a syllable, in dialogue. The emphasis of a single syllable shows a realism to the dialogue of The Catcher in the Rye rarely seen not only in the works of Salinger?s time, but also before and after it. Salinger?s emphasis on the rhythm of speech is mirrored in his emphasis on the rhythm of thought, which, in…

In JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is a boy aimlessly traveling New York City after being expelled from a classy boarding school. Holden poses a great deal of trepidation when it comes to sexual relationships, especially those of Jane and Sunny. Furthermore, Holden tends to misjudge the maturity of his fellow characters. The combination of this misconception, the tension between sexual trepidation, and an adult life with adult relationships, results in confusion for him. In…

Salinger, through his style and intentional choices, creates a sense of intimacy between Holden and the novel’s audience. Over the course of just a few days in which the events of the plot transpire, Holden experiences both love and loss, innocence and guilt…

It is not always actions that speak louder than words. As a young man transitioning into adulthood, one may be greatly influenced by society in their choices and actions. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is a young man learning to express his own beliefs, but lacks the confidence in himself to do so. Throughout interactions with others it is made overt that though one may have their beliefs and values, without the confidence to express them, one may be left feeling…

Jerome David Salinger was born in 1919, in Manhattan, New York (Telgen 117). Similar to Salinger’s fictional character in his most famous novel The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger was never a studious student and flunked out of the prestigious McBurney School. Enraged by his lack of school interest, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. Salinger became interested in a literary career after attending a short story course at Columbia University (117).…

An obsession with innocence leaves one predestined to be wedged between a world of childhood and that of adulthood. In JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye we are introduced to one of the most complex protagonists of literature, Holden Caulfield the antihero. Holden’s fixation with innocence leads him into a desperate search for connections to people who portray childlike and pure characteristics to which he feels he can identify with. Throughout the novel, Holden struggles to avoid conforming…

“What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.” This is a statement by Peter Brodie. It is basically stating that we can see how the past was by what is written. I do agree with this statement, for years now literature has been able to give us clues from the past. Whether it was 200 years ago or 2000 years ago. Literature has always been around, even it was just pictures drawn on a cave wall. Literature is what gives us knowledge of what went on ages and…