1. Holden and Willy represented the teenager and working class
Salinger has a very unique personality and lifestyle. His novels are as unusual as one will ever see. His novel The Catcher in the Rye was and is a national success. A novel of a seventeen year old boy who doesn't know his place in this off balance appearing society, but tries to search for the answer to all his questions. J.D. Salinger's unique personality and closed lifestyle play a big part in the writing of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
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 Cornish, New Hampshire, where he claims he continues to write, but there is no evidence of his writing. In 1972 Salinger wrote letters to a eighteen year old student at Yale University who later left college to live with Salinger for nine months. Her name was Joyce Maynard, and she was not the only young woman that Salinger would have interesting relationships with. These relationships were defiantly romantic but to society none were ethical. His unique personality is very similar to the one of Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye, "I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've, too, if I"d been sure somebody"d cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
In J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye" Holden Caulfield's judgment of society is jaded by his loss of innocence much like many other adolescents in today's world. ... He view society as being phony. ... He has very much in common with what has occur during recent events in our society. ... If Holden is homosexual this adds to his alienation from others that are not like him. ...
In "The Catcher in the Rye," by J.D Salinger, Holden Caulfield is never looked at as an athlete but as an outsider, someone who jumps from school to school. ... At first glance it may seem like the motif of sports and games primarily illustrates connecting to society. ... Through checkers Jane and Holden can connect without any interferences from the outside world, until it gets too hard from Jane. For example, when Holden and Jane are playing checkers and, "Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard" (Salinger 78) the two are brought back from their ideal life...
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger in 1951. ... He frequently examines his role in the society, finding that he is isolated from adolescents too. ... I know it's crazy (Salinger,156). ... I changed my mind" (Salinger,186). ...
The theme of neglect is an important one in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. ... Holden's detachment from society was instigated by the harsh abandonment of his dear brother Allie. ... While Holden wants to belong and to fit in socially, everything he tries to do just exaggerates his sense of separation from his peers, society and himself. ... His retreat from integrating with people in society triggers his self-neglect as well as his hatred for his community. ...
But society comes in and tells you to be man and that second chance is gone". ... A lot had change from the passing 40 years. ... In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, tell of a college student named Holden who like Charlie see the superficial world, but unlike Charlie he has bitterness towards the world. ... She felt isolated from everyone, and had difficulty in loving and trusting people." ...