J.D. Salinger’s unique personality can be attributed to his ab normal child hood. Born in New York City on the first day of 1919, J.D. Salinger is the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. After brief periods of enrollment at both New York University and Columbia University, Salinger devoted himself entirely to writing, and by 1940 he had published several short stories in periodicals. His writing career was interrupted by the Second World War, but returning from the service in 1946 Salinger resumed a writing career primarily for The New Yorker magazine. All this happened before he was thirty years of age, making him feel more like fifty then thirty. After writing his famous novel The Catcher in the Rye, and nine other short stories, Salinger decided to reside

In many of Salinger’s works loneliness is used to isolate characters from evil. A good example is from his most famous novel, “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” (Rye 214) Salinger portrays all of society to be bad, and for many character’s isolation from society is the only way to achieve happiness. In Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caufield’s, main character entire plot deals with him trying to isolate from society. Holden realizes that society has become bad, and wants no part in his terrible life that society has built for him. In Salinger’s works a source of unhappiness is usually the fact that society feels the character are misfits. The characters can only become happy if they isolate themselves from this society. Salinger uses loneliness also as a means to change in life. So as in his books the main idea is isolation from society and as well in his life. "I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to someone I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though." (Rye 86) Salinger uses this to show that he wants to preserver his innocents to society so that society doesn’t know the true story be hind this man who appears normal.

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