Nine Stories

She believes deeply in her mission, and because of that is able to escape from the imprisonment of her home. As “she disappears for hours” the parents display concern and disappointment, believing that they “have lost her”

35105 35105 Mrs.Warren IB Literature 5A Literary Analysis The Catcher in the Rye Essay In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger and Frankenstein, Mary Shelley both authors use a great amount of details to prevail the true meaning in which it was written.

What she finds next is that, in the free world which she often only could dream of, she is incapable of surviving totally independent. At

When one finds themselves in a reader’s position, they search for things in the novel that they can relate to. J. D. Salinger wrote a story that contained countless topics that people, past, present and future, can relate to in several ways. The novel follows the story of a troubled boy named Holden who leaves school due to his poor academic performance, an altercation with his roommate, and complications with his emotions due to the traumatic loss of his brother. He quickly understands how his narrow view of the world will lead him into trouble when he finds himself alone. The reader accompanies Holden through his stressful experiences

Jerome David Salinger, one of the most renown authors of the twentieth century. Salinger’s short stories “Nine Stories” was written after the WWII from the perspective of the war veterans. He successfully manages to create nine different short stories that all carry a theme of innocence. Meanwhile, Salinger expresses both this theme and his mysterious style of writing. Innocence is demonstrated in short stories, such as “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut”, “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor”. The appearance of children throughout the variety of short stories supports this innocence of a theme.

J.D. Salinger is well known for his works. His most famous being The Catcher in the Rye. Two other of his famous works include Nine stories and Franny and Zooey. J.D Salinger is also well known for his sense of humor that he includes inside of his books.

This void she is feeling is because of the hole her husband's death left in her heart. She, not wanting to endure this pain again, decides to

Scherlsa Louis Professor Blewitt ENC 1102 1 December 2015 Character Analysis Paper Story of an hour and Yellow wallpaper Two very different stories with little similarities, I plan on putting these two stories together and point out the differences. Starting off by give brief summary of both stories. The main character in the short story “Story of an hour,” written by Kate Chopin, is a women named Mrs. Mallad.

Salinger had a very impactful yet transient writing career. After analyzing the dates of his first release and his last release, the time span only comes to 26 years. It is weird to think that Salinger’s writing career did not even fill one-third of his overall life. All of Salinger’s short stories were published and produced in commercial magazines. His first story, “The Young Folks”, was published in Story magazine in 1939 thanks to his teacher Whit Burnett, founder and editor of Story magazine. Salinger worked his way up the magazine chain, and eventually found himself at the top, The New Yorker (Telgen). By 1948 with his short story release of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, Salinger was producing exclusively for The New Yorker (“J.D. Salinger”

her mother’s guilt; and she is forced to live without a father or other family.

J.D. Salinger makes his book very unique and original. He uses the main character Holden as a prime example. Holden acts like an overly emotional teenager that isn't afraid to state his opinion. He's very enthusiastic about things he believes in and will be very blunt. “C’mon let’s get outa here,” I said. “You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.” (133). Along with the character being unique he also has a very original writing style. He wrote the novel in the style of how a teenage boy would think. He stops and changes topics mid paragraph like any young person would do. His excessive use of curse words is a risky decision but it helps you understand the character and his views on things in a more intense level. When he curses about things it shows how strongly he believes in what he does. The author also leaves many holes throughout the book to engage the reader and make them have to infer what happens. Throughout the book Holden brings up a love interest named Jane. She is always on his mind and he contemplates calling her but never actually does it, leaving you as the reader to determine if he ever actually goes and finds her eventually. His biggest hole in the story is the ending. He is at the park with his sister and he still hasn't seen his parents or ran away and it just ends with you leaning on the edge of your seat waiting for the answers to what

As a “gateway drug for a generation of teenagers,” Jerome David Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is a world-renowned phenomenon (Teicholz). On the surface it highlights a teenager’s mentally challenging journey of painfully trying to transition into adulthood, while also wanting to reject the adult world and seek refuge in his idealistic childhood recollections. However, these ideas can be analyzed on a deeper level, not only to better understand the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, but also to acknowledge the repressed or latent feelings of the book’s reclusive author, J.D. Salinger. A fictitious character is more than a figment of the author’s imagination; the character is a “product of the author’s experiences” (Polukis 4-5). Since a character in a work of fiction is a cumulative representation of the author’s experiences, readers can use the pretentious character of Holden to scrutinize the unvented ideas of the author, J.D Salinger. In fact, Salinger mirrors many elements of his real life in The Catcher in the Rye and bases several characteristics of Holden off of himself. Similarities include that Salinger was born in New York City, had unstable school conditions, left one or more schools due to academic troubles, attended the McBurney School alluded to in The Catcher in the Rye, was atypical, valued innocence, and wished to be isolated from society (Ducharme). Furthermore, in an article recognizing Salinger’s death, it states, “Holden is dead. Long Live

The last of the "Nine Stories," Teddy is a complex and philosophy-rich testament to Salinger 's own Eastern leanings. The eponymous protagonist is the obvious source of this deep thought, as he believes himself to be in the later stages of Enlightenment, and speaks freely of his own ideas and sentiments. However, the plot, as well as the style in which it is written, also speak of convoluted ideas and symbols. The interplay between character and theme is constant and can be interpreted in myriad ways, especially given the frustratingly vague ending. All of these aspects work together to form a work of fiction which has caused significant controversy and confusion over the years.

D. Salinger also contributed other short compositions. He officially began his writing career when he took a short story course at Columbia University, where he had an opportunity in publish in Story magazine (Telgen 117). After that, his literary career became increasingly more popular, appearing in numerous magazines (117). However, several of Salinger’s stories from the 1940s have never been republished because he refused such republications (117). He published Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction, and “Hapworth 16, 1924” in 1953, 1961, 1963, and 1965 respectively (McGrath; Miller 552). Salinger is recognized for his vivid depiction of young Americans during the post-WWII era as they are searching for their future (Mulligan 351). Despite his limited collection, Salinger is arguably one of the most popular American authors of the 20th century.

From the piece “The Eye” the narrator as the daughter feels like she exists separately from her mother’s expectations of her. The relationship between the mother and daughter in the story has significant tension because her mother believes it's her duty to tell her daughter about how she should feel, almost like controlling her. It's almost like the daughter feels trapped like the "Alice and Wonderland" movie quote she had made.